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46 - André Antoine (1858–1943), actor, director, theatre manager,…
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Estimate €1,500 - €2,500
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André Antoine (1858–1943), actor, director, theatre manager, film director and theatre critic A collection of correspondence and four publications FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE 24 letters and postcards, 1915–1942, addressed to René Benjamin, including: Letter, Paris, 17 November 1915; request to write a short play based on *Gaspard* to be performed in London Letter, Paris, 13 July 1922, concerning the reorganisation of the magazine *Comoedia* Letter, Camaret-sur-Mer, 5 August 1929; an exceptionally long letter in which André Antoine describes, with great bitterness, the behind-the-scenes circumstances of his removal from the management of the Théâtre Pigalle, funded by Baron Henri de Rothschild Letter, Paris, 28 November 1935; concerning the play *Balzac* written by René Benjamin L.A.S., Le Pouliguen, 26 December 1941; a poignant account by an artist left destitute and isolated in the occupied forbidden zone *Le Triomphe d’Antoine*, a lavishly illustrated quarto booklet from the charity gala held at the Comédie-Française on 10 May 1941, with a fine autograph dedication signed by Sacha Guitry; On the cover, illustrated by André Dignimont, an autograph inscription signed in the top left-hand corner by André Antoine, theatre director and drama critic Le Théâtre Libre May 1890 Paperback, 20 x 15 cm First edition Signed autograph dedication My Memories of the Théâtre-Libre Paris, Arthèle Fayard & Cie, 1921 Paperback, 19 x 12 cm First edition Signed autograph dedication My Memories of the Théâtre Antoine and the Odéon Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1928 Paperback, 19 x 12 cm First edition on Montgolfier pure-thread paper No. II, signed autograph copy René Benjamin: observer and admirer of André Antoine’s personality Antoine – Memoirs/Recollections, handwritten draft, 15 pp. in-4, with deletions, corrections and additions Over 100 pp. of handwritten notes by René Benjamin on loose sheets in-12 and in-8: biographical notes on the era of the Théâtre Libre and at the Odéon, and on Antoine as a contemporary Sunday 24 June 1928; Antoine was 70 years old and was then working mainly as a theatre critic, but the prospect of taking over the management of a new theatre reignited his enthusiasm – the future Théâtre Pigalle, which was to be inaugurated in June 1929 on Rue de La Rochefoucauld, nicknamed at the time ‘the temple of theatre’, funded by the Rothschild family; behind the scenes of the creation of this new theatre Etc... FIND THE FULL AND DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT IN OUR ONLINE AUCTION CATALOGUE
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About the sale René Benjamin, the 20th-century Balzac scholar
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Auction time 10/06/2026 at 2:00 PM
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