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Lot 63
15.12.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1108862
Lot 63 | Artists
Estimate value
£ 2 500 – 4 000
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Six autograph letters signed and one typed speech signed by Chagall, Bakst, Rosetti (2), Barlach and Orlík, Genoa, Güstrow, Jerusalem, Le Cannet and London, [c.1878/9] - 6 February 1962
In various languages (Hebrew, Russian, German and English). Together 12½ pages, various sizes (from 180 x 115mm to 325 x 209mm), with two envelopes and one photograph inscribed by Orlík; Orlík's letter with a drawing of a reclining nude. Provenance: 1) Christie’s New York, 19 December 1986, lot 222; 2) Christie’s, 29 May 1986, lot 302; 3) Robert F. Batcheldor; 4) Sotheby’s, 26 & 27 November 1980, lot 204.

A collection of artists' letters, with a signed copy of a speech given by Chagall at the synagogue of the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, for which he had designed the stained glass windows. Rossetti writes to Theodore Watts (‘my dear Watts’, later Watts-Dunston) in c.1878/9, telling him about an apparent series of caricatures of Frederick Leyland made by his protégé James Abbott McNeill Whistler. He writes about his relationship with ‘the Boulogne lady’ and mentions the Whistler-Ruskin libel trial. A tormented Ernst Barlach writes to Kurt Zube (22 February 1934), complaining about his lack of time and money as well as any sense of how to manage them. He feels he spends too much time writing ‘furious letters’. He feels he is a suspect but cannot think why. Emil Orlík writes affectionately to János Plesch (Genoa, 30 August 1927), updating him on the correspondence he has received from their friends. He has not read a newspaper in four weeks, instead spending his mornings watching the sun rise over the sea. He has painted the portrait of a sea captain in parade uniform while on a trip aboard the ship ‘Cimarosa’. He mentions visits to Livorno, Florence and Rome. He attaches a photograph of himself at his easel on the deck of the ‘Cimarosa’. With a long letter in Russian by Bakst.
Place of origin:England, France, Israel
Auction house category:Letters, documents and manuscripts
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