"Je sais que des Italiens d'élite [...] ont été très impressionés par cette oeuvre"
Autograph lettercard signed.
Oblong 8vo. 2 pp. On mourning stationery with address.
€ 450,00
A short letter to a friend recommending a book by the journalist and author Alberto Albertini, former director of the most widely read Italian daily newspaper, "Corriere della Sera". During Fascism in Italy, the newspaper awarded the Mussolini prize, but after 1945 it changed to a liberal-conservative stance. Sukhotina-Tolstaya mentions that Albertini's book had greatly influenced Italian elite thinkers such as Benedetto Croce, and asks the addressee to let her know his opinion after reading it. She writes: "Je trouve pour ma part que il livre est remarquable par la profondement de la pensée et la largeur de la conception philosophique".
The Russian painter Sukhotina-Tolstaya was Leo Tolstoy's eldest daughter. After having worked in Tula as curator of the Yasnaya Polyana museum, previously her family's estate, and at the Lev Tolstoy State museum in Moscow, she emigrated first to Paris in 1925 and to Italy in 1930.
