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[AUTOGRAPH]. JACOB (Max). PORTRAIT OF PIERRE-LOUIS BERTHAUD …
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162
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[AUTOGRAPH]. JACOB (Max). PORTRAIT OF PIERRE-LOUIS BERTHAUD …
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Estimate €150 - €200
Voluntary lot
Description
[AUTOGRAPH]. JACOB (Max). PORTRAIT OF PIERRE-LOUIS BERTHAUD WITH A LONG, SIGNED AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION. No place or date. One sheet (29 x 21 cm). ORIGINAL DRAWING in pen, with a BEAUTIFUL HAND-SIGNED DEDICATION to Pierre-Louis BERTHAUD (1899–1956), a journalist, writer and Occitan activist, who was also a figure in the Resistance and was deported to the Dachau concentration camp. After the war, he pursued a career in politics and diplomacy, notably as a member of the Assembly of the French Union. In the lower part of the drawing, Max Jacob has inscribed a dedication recalling a ‘morning of manuscripts’ and joking about the ‘decadence of French art’, before concluding with the words ‘a sincere friend’, followed by his signature. This highly spontaneous pen-and-ink portrait bears witness to the graphic verve and humour of Max Jacob, a major poet and artist of the 20th-century avant-garde, who was close to Picasso and Apollinaire. AN INTERESTING AUTOGRAPH BRINGING TOGETHER TWO FIGURES FROM THE FRENCH LITERARY WORLD OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY. ENCLOSED is a black-and-white PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT (23.5 x 18 cm) of Pierre-Louis BERTHAUD, a silver gelatin print produced around 1950, bearing the signature ‘Harcourt Paris’ in white in the lower right-hand corner, mounted in a sturdy paper folder, with the words ‘Studio Harcourt [etc.]’ printed on the front cover.
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