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81 - 1-SÉGHERS Pierre (1906–1987), poet and publisher. Académie f…
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1-SÉGHERS Pierre (1906–1987), poet and publisher. Académie française Poetry Prize (1942), Guillaume-Apollinaire Prize (1959). Unpublished autograph poem (no place or date): ‘Did he who thought he was dreaming of himself think of the other? Perhaps. Which numbers, on this domino, correspond to the untouched, To the secret that would open a palace, or rather an abyss, Where everything would be cast down, for the duration of a dream, and man along with it?” With the following handwritten text below: “A poem, which just came to me, right at this very moment, in response to your kind interest. Warmest regards, Pierre Seghers”. 1 page in-4 (dim: 21 x 29.5 cm) on coloured paper (pink). A fine copy. 2-ORMESSON (d’) Jean (1925–2017), writer, journalist, philosopher and member of the Académie Française. -Large original photograph of Jean d’Ormesson in his Academy regalia. Dimensions: 18 x 23.5 cm. Fine copy. -A signed, typewritten letter of thanks addressed to Mrs Mireille Gautheyrou, dated 27 February 1981, with the handwritten addition: ‘With my respectful and cordial regards, Jean d’Ormesson’. 1 page, in-8 (dim: 21 x 18 cm); fine copy. -Autographed calling card bearing his name: ‘Jean d’Ormesson, of the Académie Française. Director-General of *Le Figaro* (the latter crossed out)”; no place or date: “Thank you for your letter, dear Sir, and for making room for me in your album. Yours, with my best wishes. J.O.” Size: 15 x 10.5 cm; fine copy. 3-LANZMANN Claude (1925–2018), journalist, writer, filmmaker. A former member of the Resistance, he is best known as the director of *Shoah*. Autograph card signed with his name: ‘The guillotine, and more generally capital punishment and the various methods of carrying out the death penalty, have been the great preoccupation of my life. Claude Lanzmann’. Size: 14.7 x 11 cm; fine condition. 4-CHABROL Jean-Pierre (1925–2001), writer, screenwriter Signed typewritten letter (signature accompanied by a sketched self-portrait in profile), Genholac, [30 July 1998; see envelope], addressed to Gérard Leman: ‘… your letter touched me… I’m thinking about the books that have left their mark on me… there are many. As for authors, I must mention Hugo, Hemingway, Caldwell, Malaparte, Tolstoy and, above all, Diderot. I’ve just started Victor Hugo’s *The Man Who Laughs*… which I’d never read before! I’m thoroughly enjoying it! Thank you for your loyalty.” A superb autograph signature with a hand-drawn sketch of himself in profile. Size: 21 x 29.5 cm; fine condition (envelope included). 5- Michel CIRY (1919–2018), painter, engraver, writer and composer. Autograph signed letter dated 18 January 2005, [addressed to the collector G. Leman]: ‘I have begun a fifth small painting in which the flowing hair of a weeping Mary Magdalene plays a prominent role; her sombrely framed face bears the mark of unfathomable grief, which is sublimated by the divinity of her subject’. 1 page: 21 x 29.5 cm; fine example. Provenance: Gérard Leman collection A photocopy of the painting is enclosed. Size: 21 x 29.5 cm. Provenance: Gérard Leman collection An original colour photograph by Michel Ciry is enclosed. On the reverse of this item: ‘For Gérard Leman, with warmest regards, Michel Ciry, November 2012’. Size: 15 x 10 cm. Provenance: Gérard Leman collection The set is in perfect condition. Appraisal carried out by Pascal GUILLEBAUD. Lot from a voluntary sale.
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