Letters, 1940-1971.

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Letters, 1940-1971.

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The collection comprises twenty letters written in 1970 by Germaine Everling to the art dealer Marcel Fleiss, to his father-in-law and to other collectors interested in paintings, drawings, correspondence and writings of the dada artist Francis Picabia. Besides the original items offered from her own collection, she occasionally informs them about other persons who have Picabia works or papers (including a poem), and authenticates, at collectors' request, photographs of paintings and drawings. To select friends she offers copies of the Guggenheim Museum catalog of Picabia's retrospective in New York for 500 Fr. She insists that her correspondents send back the unwanted items as soon as possible, because of the increasing demand (including from Canada and the U.S.) triggered by the retrospective: "J'attends le mois prochain un autre àvide:̀ Jean-Luc Mercié de Toronto." She notifies her correspondents that her book, L'Anneau de Saturne, has just been released by Fayard, and tells Fleiss that she is already thinking of a second volume of memoirs; her TV interview on Dada à Paris will air on April 18.

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Mercié, Jean Luc.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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Fleiss, Marcel

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Picabia, Francis, 1879-1953

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French painter. From the description of Letters, 1929, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79861140 ...

Association pour l'étude du mouvement dada.

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Mohler, Olga

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Everling, Germaine

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Germaine Everling met the dada painter Francis Picabia (married, with four children) in 1917, when she was thirty years old, had a twelve years boy and was still married. Two years later she bacame Picabia's companion and the mother of his son Lorenzo. His governess, Olga Mohler, became the artist's new companion in 1933, then his wife in 1940. Germaine and Lorenzo continued to live in the villa built by the artist at Mougins, while Francis and Olga moved to his yacht anchored at Cannes. ...