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46 - [CURNONSKY (Maurice Edmond Sailland, known as)]. Set of port…
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[CURNONSKY (Maurice Edmond Sailland, known as)]. Set of portraits of Curnonsky by Georges Villa, letters, manuscripts and documents. Description on www.alde.fr. Set of portraits of Curnonsky by Georges Villa. It includes: - Drawing for "Les Amis de Curnonsky" used for the 1960 membership card. - Illustrated membership card. - Lithograph for "Les Amis de Curnonsky". 29 x 45 cm including margins. - Two portraits drawn on the back of a book leaflet, signed "GV". - Lithograph of Curnonsky at table, servant carrying a fowl. 33 x 25 cm. - Charcoal portrait signed in ink, captioned "optimisme". 35 x 29.5 cm. - Lithograph, handwritten annotations in red pencil ("1928", "Curnonsky - Prince des gastronomes"). Joint: - MANUSCRIT]. Les "petits vins" de France. Vins de pays, vins de table, vins de carafe. Autograph manuscript signed. [Circa 1930?] In-4, in sheets, 7 leaves written in ink on the front. A neat manuscript with few corrections, used by the printer for publication, apparently in the magazine Le Carrefour, a weekly published from 1929 to 1938. It's an amusing tour of France, classified by province, of the less prestigious terroirs of the time, that Curnonsky wants to highlight here. "Our little French wines not only ensure the perfection of our sauces, but they deserve to be loved for themselves and to be better known". He concludes with this advice: "When you travel to France, where everything is good, eat the local dishes and drink the local wines. Creases, soiling, corner holes affecting a few letters. Two small drawings by Maurice Wannecq are enclosed: a sketched profile of Curnonsky and a scene of a guinguette. - Two autograph letters signed by Curnonsky. 1) 8 pages in-8 dated 13 February 1945. He laments his age, his lack of money, and (4 pp.) gives news of Brittany: pockets of German troops in Lorient, Quiberon..., Brest destroyed, the Bretons disappointed not to have American troops who would "bring them rains of andouilles, coffee, sugar and tobacco, tinned food and chewing gum...", the Russians, etc. 2) One 1/3 in-4 page envelope, dated 23 August 1945, addressed from Riec-sur-Belon to Jean Bourgoin. - Histoire pittoresque du café dessinée et lithographiée par Develly. Paris, Aux dépens d'un Amateur, 1960]. In-4 in sheets, without title page or cover. Proof copy. Signature of Curnonsky. - BARONDEAU (Jeanne B.), CURNONSKY. Curnonsky à la carte. Curnonsky en route. Curnonsky souvenirs gastronomiques. Munich, 2007. 3 volumes in-4 paperback. Published by the Curnonsky archives. Texts in French, colour illustrations, photos, letters and menu cards, abundant iconography.
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