Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/539
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    #64 455 457 458 459 publishes the enclosed falsehood [as above], the outcome of ignorance and malevolence combined. Wherefore, my dear Huish, you may consider our little plans for next year cancelled—and thank the indefatigable Romeike [the press cutting agent] for relieving you of the responsibility of foisting upon the Public pictures that in a few years might ‘disappear altogether !’ In the second letter he asks: Who is this foolish Frenchman who has threatened our entente cordiale ? These things are due to the Christian virtues, envy, hatred, and malice all over the World, and are not confined to Paris, etc. A. L. s. 3 pp. oblong 8vo, 110, Rue du Bac, Paris, May 8, 1895, a fine letter: Iam very hard at work in the studio completing canvasses that: were necessarily greatly delayed beeause of our long absence in London... I take a great delight in Phil May. Certainly his work ‘interests me far more than that of any man since Charles Keene— from whom he is quite distinct. There is a brightness and daintiness in what he does, combined with knowledge, together with the fact. that in his drawings, the wit is the artist’s, which makes a vast difference between him and his contemporaries, ete. Auto. Corres. Card, signed, 2 pp., 110, Rue du Bac, Paris, Sunday, speaks of an exhibition of his etchings and says: At present I am not at all in my War Paint for public battle—and victory, of course! etc, A. L.s. 3 pp. oblong 8vo, 110, Rue du Bac, Paris [n. d.], a long letter, thanking Mr. Huish for some birds which *“ were in every way a most complete success! Not only did they arrive in excellent condition, but they were appreciated in their full importance by our cuisiniére, who is an artiste, so that they came to table in a state of absolute perfection !”” Mentions Puvis de Chavannes as ‘‘a gourmet of the very first... wine” A. L. s. 14 pp. oblong 8vo, 110, Rue du Bac, Paris [n. so he is returning to Londo and I shall bring the first batch of proofs, ete. Auto. Corres. Card, 2 pp., signed J. McN. Whistler, 110, Rue du Bac, Paris (n. d.}: Business I am told is desperate in London?... I suppose you don’t. want to buy any lithographs? ete. Four Auto. Postcards and two Corres. Cards, signed, three with “butterfly” signature, from Lyme Regis. ‘The D. N. Biog. notes his visit thus: “ During 1895 Whistler was for a time at Lyme Regis, and his picture “The Master-Smith of Lyme Regis’ is at the Boston Museum; Royal Lion Hotel [Lyme Regis], Oct. 27 [1895], an interesting letter : ** An exhibition may be advisable at this moment, and I am urged to it on all sides, but the possible glory of a tolerable show of litho- graphs in the face of Burlington House and Goulding combined is not sufficient to tempt me.” He discusses the prices of his proofs **... on beautiful Dutch... paper just like the etchings, and then also my things are dear, and it is high time they should be,” etc.
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