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two pages of paper with a drawing of a kitchen and a drawing of a living room
Daguerre Val de Loire

131 - IWILL (pseudonym of Marie-Joseph Léon Clavel, 1850–1923), Fr…
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Estimate €100 - €150
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IWILL (pseudonym of Marie-Joseph Léon Clavel, 1850–1923), French landscape painter. Set comprising two signed autograph letters and a sheet of original sketches. - Addressed to ‘Dear Sir’. Paris, 13 December [19]09. ½ page in-12. (slightly creased in the fold). Having just learnt that the ‘Orientalists’ committee had accepted his application ‘thanks to the kind support of its eminent president’, the painter thanks the committee and, in particular, the addressee. - Addressed to ‘Dear Sir’. Paris, 24 January [19]11. ½ page in-12. (slight crease where folded in half). The painter accepts the recipient’s offer to send him invitations for the Orientalists [i.e. the exhibition of Orientalist painters]; he assures him that he will send them only to people he trusts, ‘who will certainly go…’. - A sheet measuring 13.5 x 21.5 cm, bearing the inscriptions ‘Plan – Iwill – Orientalists’ and featuring 8 small original sketches, based on the painter’s works; all are titled and depict views of Venice.
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About the sale Books from the 15th to the 21st century, most of which are illustrated. Manuscripts. Painters’ autographs. Maps and plans. Architectural drawings. Normandy.
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Auction time 10/22/2026 at 2:00 PM
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