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BLANCHE, Jacques-Émile (1861–1942).
See original version (French)
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BLANCHE, Jacques-Émile (1861–1942).
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
BLANCHE, Jacques-Émile (1861–1942).
BLANCHE, Jacques-Émile (1861–1942).
2 autograph MANUSCRIPTS, the first signed ‘J. E. Blanche’, Memoirs of Clemenceau, and Clemenceau, High School Riding Instructor and Equestrian Writer; 4 and 5 pages, in-4.
€600/800
Memoirs of CLEMENCEAU, lover of art and horsemanship.
Both manuscripts contain numerous crossings-out and corrections. The second appeared in *Les Nouvelles littéraires* on 14 December 1929; the first appears to be an earlier, very different version of it.
Blanche first met Clemenceau at the home of the painter Raffaëlli, and was charmed by ‘the man with a penchant for all things Japanese, the admirer of Monet’; he often visited her at her flat, which was filled with treasures of Japanese art… But it was in the stables of the riding school run by the riding instructor James Fillis ‘that a brief intimacy developed between the future “Père-la-Victoire”, and the ‘absurd young man’”, and during horse rides in the Bois de Boulogne, between 1890 and 1894… ‘There was already something comical and old-fashioned about his figure, a shabby, old-fashioned French bourgeois character that was accentuated by the war of 1914’. Blanche saw in him ‘an ancestor of Zola’s Rougon-Macquarts’; but he was fascinated by this ‘artist-writer, portrayed by Manet, a friend of Claude Monet, and a lover of all things Japanese. […] His tastes in modern painting were akin to those of Gustave Geffroy; he believed in a popular, anonymous art, like that of the cathedrals; he harboured many humanitarian and social ideas that were at odds with the work of art […] Everyone was all fire and flame back then, in the effervescent atmosphere of Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, the Théâtre Libre, Symbolism… and the Dreyfus Affair.”
See original version (French)
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