Vlaminck, Maurice de, French painter (1876-1958). Typed letter signed.

Rueil-la-Gadelière, 1. I. 1935.

8vo. 1 p. on bifolium.

 800,00

To an art dealer, probably Georges Wildenstein, accepting a proposal to participate in an exhibition in London and inviting the recipient to his house in Rueil-la-Gadelière: "Je vous remercie de votre lettre et suis très heureux de participer à la manifestation artistique que vous organisez dans votre Galerie de Londres pour Janvier prochain. Dès aujourd'hui, je donne à Monsieur Metthey tous les renseignements utiles pour cette manifestation. J'aurai grand plaisir à vous recevoir à La Tourillière, s'il vous est possible de venir jusqu'ici [...]".

No 1936 exhibition of Maurice de Vlaminck's works in London is known, but Wildenstein's gallery exhibited de Vlaminck in 1937. It is thus most likely that the preparations for the exhibition announced in the letter took longer. A less likely scenario is that letter was written to confirm participation in a modern art exhibition at the Leger Gallery in London, also held in 1937. The business partner mentioned in the letter as "Metthey" cannot be identified with certainty: de Vlaminck might be referring to the art historian and critic Jacques Mathey.

Traces of folds. With punch holes.

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