Collect these Autograph Letters Signed by Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861 –1942) to the Count and the Countess Pecci-Blunt.
This lot is composed of three items, in French, written from 1929 to 1933.
Excellent conditions, perfectly readable. Including original envelopes.
In details:
Autograph Greeting Card Signed. Paris, May 10th 1929. One page, double-sided, on light blue colored paper. On letterhead paper "Offranville- Seine Inférieure".
Autograph Letter Signed. Paris, December 11th 1932. One page, three-sided.
Autograph Letter Signed. Paris, May 24th 1933. One page, three-sided. On letterhead paper " 19. Rue du Docteur Blanche. XVI". Letter of request.
Confidential Letters concerning the organization of literary conferences at one of the Countess Pecci Blunt' residences. The letter of request written in 1933, stands out: the French painter asks to the Count Blumenthal for advise on evaluating an investment!
Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861 –1942)
The French artist, largely self-taught, Jacques-Émile Blanche, became a very successful portrait painter, active in London and Paris, with a style derived from 18th-century English painters such as Thomas Gainsborough as well as Édouard Manet and John Singer Sargent. He had the honor to exhibit at the Salon and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1902, Jacques-Émile Blanche took over the direction of the Académie de La Palette, where he would remain director until 1911.He taught at the Académie Vitti in 1903.
He was still today remembered to have portrait characters of the mondan and literary world like one of his closest friend, Marcel Proust, the poet Pierre Louÿs, the Thaulow family, Aubrey Beardsley,Yvette Guilbert, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, James Joyce, Julia Stephen, Edgar Degas, Claude Debussy, Auguste Rodin, Colette, Thomas Hardy, John Singer Sargent, Charles Conder, Percy Grainger, and Tamara Karsavina...
Category
1930s Modern Paper More Art
