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These are Autographs Letter Signed by Nicolas Nabokov to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Paris, June 18th 1962 . On letterhead paper " Nicolas Nabokov , Paris" Rome, February 6th 1963. On letterhead paper " American Academy in Rome". In French. One page, sigle-sided. Excellent condition: As good as New. With original envelope included. The Russian-born composer never forgot to write to his mentor and patron of art A.L. Pecci Blunt, with each kind of request, mainly asking to meet her. Background: During the Fifties, Nicolas Nabokov became General Secretaryof the newly formed Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), backed by the CIA, and remained in the job for more than fifteen years, organizing music and cultural festivals, and was musical director of the American Academy in Rome (Villino Aurelia, Porta S. Pancrazio). Nicolas Nabokov (Russia 1903 –1978) The Russian-born composer and cultural figure, was the first cousin of the talented writer of "Speaks Memory", Vladimir Nabokov...

This Correspondence between Léon Gischia and Nesto Jacometti, written in French and Italian , in 1960, is composed of 7 items, prefectly readable and in ...

Autograph Happy New Year Card Signed by José Hurtuna Giralt to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Christmas 1960 and New yaer 1961 . In 24°. In Italian. Excellent condition: ...

This is a Greeting Letter Signed by the Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, February 29th, 1940, XVIII. One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent condition, incl...

This unique set includes a manuscript letter written by Ardengo Soffici to the artist Mino Maccari and his portrait realized by the same Maccari. Autograph Letter Signed. Aprile, 28...

Alfredo Casella Autograph Letter is an original manuscript by Alfredo Casella (25 July 1883 – 5 March 1947) an Italian composer, pianist and conductor...

This is a Happy New Year Card Signed by Virgilio Guzzi, to Silvio Perina, the director of the C.I.M, Roman warehouses, during the Seventies. Rome, Febr...

This Correspondence by Léon Gischia to Nesto Jacometti, written in French, between 1954-55, is composed of 3 items, prefectly readable and in excellent ...

L.A.S. s. l. n. d addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt. (13.5x22 cm). Ripped on the bottom edge. As a regular client of the "Aragno" café, "oversaw" by Cardarelli and Francesco Trombadori, the young De Libero finds his place inside the new school of Via Cavour. In that environment, painters like M. Mafai, Antonietta Raphaël...

This is the Autograph Postcard Signed by Plinio Nomellini to Beppe Guzzi. Impruneta, June 22nd 1931 - IX. One page-double-sided. In Italian. Excellent condition, except for aging signs. Informative postcard: the Italian painter of Divisionism, Plinio Nomellini is sending to Beppe Guzzi an artwork reproducing a wave for an eventual exhibition and ask him to fill in a technical form. The background: During the period of this correspondence, Beppe Guzzi (Genoa, 1902 - Rome, 1982) knows his success: from 1930 to 1954 he partecipates to 11 editions of the Venice Biennale and from the third edition 6 times at the Rome Quadriennale, being awarded during the VII edition, as well as he realizes exhibitions in Livorno. From here Guzzi calls Nomellini for a collective exhibition. Plinio Nomellini (Livorno, 1866 –Firenze, 1943) The Italian painter of the Divisionist mouvement, Plinio Nomellini, in 1885 enrolled at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, where he was the pupil of Giovanni Fattori and formed friendships with Telemaco Signorini and Silvestro Lega...

This is a Typewritten Letter Signed by Giuseppe Prezzolini to the Countess Pecci Blunt. New York, September 30th 1941. In Italian. One page, single-sided. On letterhead paper "Colu...

This is a Autograph Card Signed by Giacomo Manzù to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Milan, May 28th 1937. In Italian. One page-single-sided. Excellent condit...

Card signed by Alfonso la Marmora. (20x9 cm). Perfect conditions. Collaborator of the King of Sardinia, Carlo Alberto, fought in the First Independen...

The batch of correspondence with Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt includes: Headed Business Card "Alberto Arbasino" with a handwritten message from the author. Rome, July 1, 1958....

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino - T.L.S. is a Typewritten Letter Signed by Ugo Ojetti to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Florence, April 12, 1937. In Italian. One page, single-si...

Telegram by Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984), Italian playwright, director, actor and poet addressed to the Countess Anna -Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. One-page. V...

This is a unique Correspondence Signed by Dino Grandi to the Countess Pecci- Blunt, written at the end of 1950's (1957-1958) Including 6 items, In Italian, in very good conditions. ...

This Correspondence by Arturo Tosi to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt is composed of three Autograph Letter Signed and written between 1937-38, in I...

This is an Happy New Year Autograph Letter Signed and Dated by Giuseppe Ungaretti (Alessandria of Egypt, 1888- Milan 1970) to the Countess and patron o...

Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma is a lot composed of two typewritten letter signed by Fortunato Bellonzi, on letterhead paper "Quadriennale d'arte di Roma". One page, single-sided. In Italian. As good as new. In details: T. L.S. Rome, March 13th 1952. Addressed to the Countess A.L. Pecci-Blunt. Official request of courtesy of the Countess' Portrait of Jean Cocteau...

Collect this unique Family Memories - Autograph Letter Signed by Francesco Maria Guardabassi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Santa Barbara, September 26th 1944. One page, four-sided, on light blue colored paper, in 8°, in English. On leterhead paper "Woodstock Pride's crossing - Massachusetts". Excellent conditions, usual folds. Perfectly readable, including original envelope. Confidential Letter concerning family memories between the Italian painter of the Risorgimento, F. Maria Guardabassi (Umbertide, Perugia 1867 - Palm Beach, Florida, 1952), owner of the Villa La Torre Monaldi in Perugia, attended by the young Countess Pecci. "You are too young to remember me in Perugia, my native town, when you were a very little girl and me allready a young man aand a great lover of art and music". This autograph letter with a nostalgic beginning, continues with an apology of the Pecci family name. Indeed the prestige of the family grew at the end of the nineteenth century, when Cardinal Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci ascended to the papal throne with the name of Leo XIII...

Collect this Correspondence by Massimo Bontempelli to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. This lot is composed of 6 items, in Italian, written from 1934 to1937. Excellent conditions, perfectly readable. Including original envelopes. In details: Autograph Telegram Signed. Frascati, 1934. Autograph Telegram Signed. Viareggio, August 17th 1934 Autograph Letter Signed. Frascati, April 25th 1934. One page, single-sided. On letterhead paper " Reale Accademia d'Italia". Autograph Greeting Postcard Signed. Altomare, January 3rd 1935. Signed by Montempelli and his wife. Autograph Letter Signed. Rome, January 13th 1935. One page, single-sided. On letterhead paper " Reale Accademia d'Italia". Autograph Letter Signed. Milan, May 30th 1937. One page, single-sided. On letterhead paper " Reale Accademia d'Italia". From the Royal Academy of Italy, Massimo Bontempelli writes to the Countess Pecci-Blunt, meditating on congresses and literary conferences and declining invitations to sumptuous lunches, because of previous commitment. During this period, Bontempelli was close to the Fascism, and as a member of this political movement and for literary honors he gained the chair for the Royal academy of Italy. He served as a secretary of the fascist writers' union and spent time abroad lecturing on Italian culture. promoting Italian Culture was the common mission of the Countess Pecci-Blunt and Bontempelli. However, in 1938 he was kicked out of the Fascist party, drifting towards Communism. Massimo Bontempelli (1878 - 1960) Italian poet, playwright, novelist and composer, Massimo Bontempelli was influential in developing and promoting the literary style known as Magical Realism. After the war, he settled in Milan and became interested in the Futurist and Magical realist literary styles. In 1926, along with Curzio Malaparte...

Jacques Chastenet de Castaing (Paris, 1893- 1978) was a French historian, diplomat and politician. Co-director (1932-42) of “Le Temps”, he wrote “Wellington”, “Le siècle de Victoria...

This is the unique Correspondence by Agostino Gemelli to Umberto Calamid, composed of 12 items, written beteen 1908 to 1940. In Italian. In very god conditions, original envelopes in...

This is an Invitation Autograph Letter Signed by Franco Gentilini to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Not dated. Around 1950s. One page, single-sided. In Italian. In Excell...

Christmas Greeting Card by Guttuso is an Autograph Signed by Renato Guttuso to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Rome, November 1939. In Italian. O...

Cocktail Invitation is the main content of this Autograph Letter Signed by the Italian composer Vittorio Rieti to the Countess A. L. Pecci-Blunt. Writte...

L.A.S. addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt. Portofino, September 16, 1937. In English.

L.T.S. addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt, on letterhead Reform Club, Pall Mall. November 3, 1937. In English. Letter in which they decide the fee in lire and the date of the confere...

Ticket a map to reach the Villa Reale in Lucca, Countess Pecci-Blunt's country residence . With sketches and notes by the great Italian writer. Good conditions.

Bertini meets Filippo Fichera after he received the magazine sent by him. In the letter Bertini expresses his thanks.

The letter describes the note of a payment related to the sale of one of Bryen's paintings.

In the letter the italian painter Silvano Bozzolini (1911-1998) writes about a project for an exhibition to his friend Nesto Jacometti.

Letter written in German by the slovenian painter and graphic artist Javez Bernik to Nesto Jacometti.

In the letter Bernik, slovenian painter and graphic artist, writes the editor Nesto Jacometti about his regret about some issues, but still by his willingness to help. He hopes to be...

In the letter the painter Bozzolini (1911-1998), confirms Nesto Jacometti an invoice of 75 francs.

L.A.S. addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt. Rome, February 12, 1962. 1p front and back, on paper headed by the "Company of prose: Giorgio De Lullo, Rossella Falk, Romolo Valli, Elsa A...

This Christmas Card by Andreina Pagnani is a wishing card (C.P.S. s.l.n.d.) to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Rome, December 23rd 1961. 12 x...

L. T. S. addressed to Contessa A. L. Pecci-Blunt. Rome, April 7, 1945. 2 pp. Front and back, with free-handwritten corrections, some red-typed words and blue ink "Sender" stamp. Perf...

Thanksgiving letter from Renato Guttuso to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Envelope included.

Letter addressed to Mino Maccari. Fagnano, 14 May 1933. "The promise of Ansaldo". During his pre journalistic period, the wannabe novelist Benedetti used to use the stage name of Ar...

L.A.S. addressed to Countess Letizia Pecci Blunt. Bolzano, September 21, 1966. 1 page 20x29 cm in perfect condition with envelope and postmark, size 16x11 cm. Theorist and critic of...

L.T.S addressed to the collector Nesto Jacometti, on headed paper "Marcello Mascherini - Sculptor - Trieste - Via Fabio Severo 20". Trieste, 2 May ...

This Letter by Palma Bucarelli is a typewritten document of the Superintendence at the National Gallery of Modern Art, addressed to the Director of the Rome Institute for Solidarity ...

Letter from Mino Maccari to Countess Pecci Blunt, L.A.S. addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt. Rome, May 25, 1937. One page, 20 x 29 cm, in perfect conditions...

Letter from Giulio Cesare Viola to Countess Pecci Blunt is a letter in which Giulio Cesare Viola cancels an appointment in Paris with the Countess Pecci ...

Letter from Arrigo Benedetti to Mino Maccari, L.T.S. Fagnano, November 18, 1934. 1p. two-sided with adjustments and underlines, on letterhead (in the back) Gino Benedetti, Box 2, Luc...

Letter from Orfeo Tamburi to Countess Pecci Blunt is an invitation letter for the collective of the rising Roman group composed by Guttuso, Guzzi, Montanarini, Ziveri, Fazzini, Tambu...

Greeting card with a nice drawing to wish a Merry Christmas (1959). Anna Salvatore (1923-1978) was a populäre Italian painter and novelist.

M.A.S. accompanying his "Still Life". Rome, December 9, 1984. 1p. 21x29cm. Very good condition. "This is the first, perhaps last Findus, entered into the history of art," writes Vespignani about his only "dead and frozen" still life. In his humorous writing, he described how, in the 1960s, he wanted to paint an "alive, remembering the sea, wriggling like a freshly caught fish" nature, to distract himself from his "murderous dead". But the result was quite different, contrary to his intentions. Because of his being a "realistic painter, or rather obsessed nerista", portraying the alive nature meant seeing and reproducing the gradual decay of the small group: "from the stage of cheerful youth (...) to the cadaverous dissolution." In the same year that he writes "Like Flies in Honey" dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the Academy of France...

These are two Autograph Apology Letters Signed by Georges Goyan to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Paris, July 5th, 1936. Written on behalf of G. Goyan, likely by his wife H. Goyan, One pa...

Autograph Card Signed by Carla Gronchi (1912-1993), the first lady of the Italian President Giovanni Gronchi (1955-1962), to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. ...

Autograph Letter Signed by Alberto Savinio to the Countess A.L Pecci-Blunt. 1934 c.a. In Italian. One page, single-sided. Excellent condition, including original envelpe. The Itali...

Costa Rica-Japon-India-France is a superbe Correspondance between Jean-Pierre Guillermet (Porrentruy, Switzerland, 1921- San José 2017) to Nesto Jacometti (Locarno, 1898- 1973). Co...

Springs Concerts is the main content of this correspondence, composed of three autograph letters signed by the Italian composer Vittorio Rieti to the Co...

Italian Art in NY – A.L.S. is a Autograph Letters Signed by Vittorio Rieti to the Countess A.L. Pecci-Blunt. Paris, May 10th 1947. In Italian. Onepage...

"Un Rendez-vouz au café Flore" is the main request of this Autograph Letter Signed by Ossip Zadkine to Nesto Jacometti. Les Argues par Cazals, France, July...

This is a Autograph Letter Signed by Marie Grosnowska to the Countess A. L. Pecci Blunt. Paris, December 31st 1933. In French. One page, double-sided. Excellent condition. Very confidential letter of greeting and wishing happy new year 1934. Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt (Rome, 1885 - Marlia, 1971) Best-known as "Mimì" Pecci-Blunt , the Italian noblewoman was an art collector, patron and nephew of Pope Leo XIII...

This is a Autograph Letter Signed by Jean-Pierre Guillermet to Nesto Jacometti. San José, March 15th, 1960. Three pages, double-sided. In French. Excellent conditions, perfectly readable. This is a long letter of report written from San José, Costa Rica, by the Swiss artist, Jean- Pierre Guillermet, to the Swiss graphic art editor and collector Nesto Jacometti. A letter thatt reveals the "adaptation" of the European artist in Costa Rica, a tropical island that ignores the engraving art.With more upcoming projects in San Paolo, Colombia, Guillermet is preparing for the birth of his frst child in France. Jean-Pierre Guillermet (Porrentruy, Switzerland, 1921- San José 2017) The Swiss artist, best-known as painter, wood-engraver, lithographer, he realized murals and tapestries. His artistic career grew up during the 1950s and was strongly influenced by Abstract Expressionism atmosphere. Lover of travels, he explores Mexico during the Sisties and makes contacts with Japan. Nesto Jacometti (Locarno, 1898- 1973) Nesto Jacometti is still today a fascinating figure of the Locano and International cultural scene of the last century. Collector and editor of graphic art, he was the promoter of two important editorial projects and adventures: the Guilde Internationale de la Gravure and L’Oeuvre Gravée. Born in Locarno at the end of the 19th century, at the age of 30 he left Ticino to move to Paris and immerse himself in the bohemian atmosphere of Montparnasse. The war forces him to return to Switzerland, to Geneva, where he works in the journalistic field and he knows figures as Albert Skira and Pierre Cailler. With the latter one a collaboration born and resulted, in 1949, in a printing guild: an edition of etchings and lithographs destined for a wide circulation of the Paris School. During all his life, Jacometti collaborates and involves artists such as Rufino Tamayo and Jean Lurçat, Antoni Clavé, Zao Wou-Ki, Alfred Manessier, Gustave Singier and Zoran Music...

Joie de Vivre Mexicaine - A.L.S. is a Autograph Letter Signed by Jean-Pierre Guillermet to Nesto Jacometti. Mexico, May 15th, 1961. Three pages, double-sided. In French. Excellent c...