Marcel JOUHANDEAU (Guéret 1888-1979), writer: original pen portrait (1 p in-8) representing Marcel Jouhandeau dated 1943 executed and signed by André DELFAU (1914-2000, fashion designer for Balmain, Patou and Balenciaga, an oil on canvas portrait of Elisabeth Toutemont, Jouhandeau's wife, is known), a portrait Jouhandeau offered to his former student Maurice Dalinval in 1966 (autograph signed consignment) / Attached: Catalogue of the sale of the Marcel and Elise Jouhandeau estate of 30 October 1979, in which appears under number 9 a portrait (pen drawing) of Jouhandeau by Delfau

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