Letters, 1904-1953.

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Letters, 1904-1953.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83288113

Collection contains ca. 105 letters to several correspondents including Andre Level, Christian Zervos, Andre Lhote, Charles Thorndike, Henri Donias, and Olga Meerson. Subjects include the sale of paintings, reproductions of his work, publications about the artist, work in progress, and personal matters.

ca. 105 items.

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Sardon, Jean Claude, 1904-1967.

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Level, André

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Art dealer and owner of Galerie Percier in Paris, André Level played an active role in the artistic and intellectual Parisian world mostly between the two World Wars. From the description of Letters received by André Level, 1908-1949, bulk 1920-1939. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79305161 ...

Donias, Henri.

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Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954

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Matisse was born in 1869 to generations of weavers in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, a northern French town whose woolen mills constituted the main industry. He was raised in nearby Bohain, famous for its luxury fabrics. This early exposure to textiles would shape his visual language: examples from his own collection of carpets and cloths from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East would deeply inform his sense of color and pattern and appear in his compositions. Taking up painting after first studyin...

Dubois, Paul, 1848-1918

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Thorndike, Charles, 1875-1935.

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Meerson, Olga.

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Chachaut, Lucien.

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Escholier, Raymond, 1882-1971

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Lhote, André, 1885-1962

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French painter, theoretician, art critic and teacher. Besides his activity as an artist, he created the Académie André Lhote in 1922, and was art critic for the Nouvelle revue française from 1922 to 1940. He published numerous articles and several books of theory of art and lectured widely outside France as late as the 1950s. From the description of Letters and manuscript, 1918-1955. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77645902 ...

Zervos, Christian

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