Null TETSU, Roger TESTU (1913-2008)

Go on, you can talk as much as you want I a…

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TETSU, Roger TESTU (1913-2008) Go on, you can talk as much as you want I am lying in the glue! Ink and wash on paper signed lower left 25 x 32,5 cm - 9.84 x 12.79 in. Ink and wash on paper signed lower left

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TETSU, Roger TESTU (1913-2008) Go on, you can talk as much as you want I am lying in the glue! Ink and wash on paper signed lower left 25 x 32,5 cm - 9.84 x 12.79 in. Ink and wash on paper signed lower left

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A TANTRIC BRONZE FIGURE OF A DEITY Nepal, ca. 19th c. H 21 cm European private collection, assembled before 2007 - Base replaced, minor wear and slightly chipped

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Marcel PROUST (1871-1922). L.A.S., [May 4, 1905, to Robert de Montesquiou]; 4pages in-8 (mourning). Beautiful letter to Montesquiou, one of the models for Baron de Charlus. Proust begins his letter with a line from Phaedra: "In the depths of my heart, you don't know how to read! In this heart, there is no bitterness: "He has only gratitude and admiration for you". Proust talks about his asthma: "Since my attacks don't announce themselves, I can find myself the same day unable to get up, unable to speak, in suffocations that would be as intolerable for you as for me, and with a fever that goes almost to delirium. It's true that I can reduce this risk, if not to zero, at least to a great extent, by lying completely still for a few days beforehand, by not speaking, and by taking only milk. [...] Since my last unfortunate letter, I have been sicker than I have ever been before, indescribably so. And as I have (I'll explain what the volume was and think it's really too indifferent) a volume to deliver [the translation of Ruskin's Sesame and the Lilies] to the Mercure in a month's time, each new ailment despairs me by delaying me, by making me fear I won't make it to the end". Proust is delighted to have a new book by Montesquiou: "It will be a great joy. How sad I am not to do literary criticism in a newspaper, I'd so much like to talk about it. Anyway, I hope that without even waiting for a little notoriety, which may be worth it, I'll be able to talk a little about you, in a general way. I can't quite see how or when". Proust read Montesquiou's letter to Horatio (a pseudonym Proust had used to write an article in Le Figaro about the Fête chez Montesquiou in Neuilly): "It contained not the slightest thanks, and was hardly encouraging! But for myself, for my own pleasure, I'd love to write about you. After my cure, if I lead a normal life as I'm assured I will, I'll try to have a little more frequent contact with newspapers and magazines. I won't write to you at any greater length, as these nights of working by electric light are wearing out my eyesight to such an extent that I can't see my "characters" while I'm writing to you". And he signs: "Your respectful admirer Marcel Proust". Correspondance, t.V, n°62.

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CURIOSA. Octave CHARPENTIER. Eight licentious ballads. La Caravelle, 1934. Illustrated with woodcuts by Paul BAUDIER. First edition. - André de ROUVEYRE. Le Gynécée. Mercure de France, 1909. - Nicolas STERNBERG]. Collection of illustrations for The Three Goldsmiths. - SCHEM, Ce qu'il faut dire et ne pas dire! 60 lithographs. - Roger TESTU (1913- 2008)] Dessins des Q, que des Q., circa 1960. 38 untitled illustrated plates. (5 volumes in all)

Estim. 100 - 120 EUR

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