BECKETT SAMUEL: (1906-1989) Irish novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize winner fo…

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BECKETT SAMUEL: (1906-1989) Irish novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1969. A.L.S., Sam, to the verso of a vintage picture postcard of the steps leading to the Monument to the Unknown Hero at Mount Avala, Belgrade, 11th July 1958, to Deryk Mendel. Beckett writes a brief message to update his friend on travel arrangements, ´On tomorrow to Zagreb to join Roger & Nicole near Fiume (i.e. Rijeka)´ , and concludes by sending his affectionate greetings. At the foot of the letter appear two brief notes in French, ´On se revenu´ (Translation: ´We´ll be back´) signed by Beckett´s lover and future wife, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, and ´Ca Va. Et toi!´ (Translation: ´How are you. And you!´) signed by the French actor Jean Martin. VG Deryk Mendel (1920-2013) British ballet dancer, choreographer, actor and director, a friend of Beckett. The playwright wrote the short play Act Without Words I in 1956 for Mendel and the dancer first performed the mime at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 3rd April 1957. Jean Martin (1922-2009) French actor, best known for originating two roles in Samuel Beckett´s most famous plays: Lucky in Waiting for Godot, and Clov in Endgame.

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Fritz Leopold Hennig, Bachlauf im Sommer Trees on the banks of a stream in a gently moving mountain landscape, impasto landscape painting, oil on card, around 1950, monogrammed "FLH" in ligature lower left, traces of studio on the reverse, indistinct annotations in lead and two artist's labels, each with artist's monogram and hand signature as well as different text "Sonderklasse - Alle Gemälde der Sonderklasse tragen dieses Qualitätszeichen mit meiner in Tinte vollgezogenen eigenhändigen Unterschrift: Prof. F. L. Hennig." and "Kunstwerkstatt Hennig - Motiv Prof. F. L. Hennig (copying without permission prohibited) ... due to the numerous imitations, all paintings that leave my art workshop bear my handwritten signature in ink on the reverse: "Prof. F. L. Hennig"", in need of cleaning, framed, folded dimensions approx. 60 x 80.5 cm. Artist information: German painter, graphic artist, commercial artist, draughtsman, novelist, playwright and operetta author (1895 Danzig to 1951 Dresden), participated in World War I as a naval pilot, survived several plane crashes, awarded the "Bene Merenti Medal" by Wilhelm Prince of Hohenzollern on 17 May 1918, ca. 1918-21 studied at the Dresden Academy, in the 1920s and 1930s in Sopot near Gdańsk [Engl.: Sopot near Gdańsk] as a painter, graphic artist and commercial artist, here parallel turn to writing, 1945 moved to Dresden and founder and director of the training workshops for art and applied arts in Dresden, appointed professor by the Soviet occupation authorities, 1949 dissolution of the training workshops, then freelance painter, graphic artist and writer in Dresden-Oberloschwitz, allegedly author of the operetta "Nun schlägt's 13", which premiered in Wurzen in 1948, member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts from 1940, member of the Goethe Society Weimar after 1945, source: Wikipedia.

Estim. 3 000 - 3 500 EUR

CAMILO JOSÉ CELA (Iria Flavia, A Coruña, 1916 - Madrid, 2002) and EBERHARD SCHLOTTER (Hildesheim, 1921 - Altea, 2014). "Don Quixote as read by Camilo José Cela". With 40 color etchings by Eberhard Schlotter. Copy 83/355. Rembrandt Editions. Damage and discoloration on the covers. Etchings numbered and signed by the artist. Measurements: 42 x 42 x 9.5 cm (x 4 units). This is one of the most important editions of this work in the 20th century. Its authors were, on the one hand, the Nobel Literature Prize winner Camilo José Cela, who modernized the classic text, and, on the other hand, the German engraver and painter D. Eberhard Chlotter, who made a series of color etchings to illustrate it. Camilo José Cela was a writer, novelist, journalist and member of the Spanish Royal Academy. He was born in the parish of Iria Flavia, in the province of La Coruña. In 1925 his family moved to Madrid and, years later, in 1934, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the Complutense University. However, the Contemporary Literature classes taught by the poet Pedro Salinas, which he attended as a listener, provoked in him a change of direction towards his literary vocation. His first work was a book of poems entitled "Pisando la dudosa luz del día", published in the middle of the Civil War. In 1940 he resumed his literary work and two years later published his first novel, "La familia de Pascual Duarte". Since then, he wrote more than a dozen novels, as well as numerous short stories, fables, short novels and articles for newspapers and magazines. Among his novels are "La colmena" (1951), "El molino de viento" (1956), "San Camilo 1936" (1969), "Cristo versus Arizona" (1988) and "Madera de boj" (1999). Cela also cultivated poetry and published, among other titles, "El monasterio y las palabras" (1945), "Cancionero de la Alcarria" (1948), "Tres poemas gallegos" (1957) and "Reloj de arena, reloj de sol, reloj de sangre" (1989). He also wrote three plays: "María Sabina" (1967), "Homenaje a El Bosco I. El carro del heno o el inventor de la guitarra" (1969) and "Homenaje a El Bosco II. The extraction of the stone of madness or the invention of the garrote (1999)". Cela received notable distinctions throughout his career, such as the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (1987), the Nobel Prize for Literature (1989) and the Miguel de Cervantes Award (1995). They present damages and discoloration on the covers.

Estim. 250 - 300 EUR

CAMILO JOSÉ CELA (Iria Flavia, A Coruña, 1916 - Madrid, 2002). "Chronicle of the Cipote de Archidona", 1977. Illustrations by Lorenzo Goñi with 4 etchings. Copy 210/250. The etchings are signed and justified in pencil. It has a hessian binding. Printer: Gisa Ediciones, Madrid. Measurements: 36 x 27 x 2 cm (book). Camilo José Cela was a writer, novelist, journalist and member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He was born in the parish of Iria Flavia, in the province of La Coruña. In 1925 his family moved to Madrid and, years later, in 1934, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at the Complutense University. However, the Contemporary Literature classes taught by the poet Pedro Salinas, which he attended as a listener, provoked in him a change of direction towards his literary vocation. His first work was a book of poems entitled "Pisando la dudosa luz del día", published in the middle of the Civil War. In 1940 he resumed his literary work and two years later published his first novel, "La familia de Pascual Duarte". Since then, he wrote more than a dozen novels, as well as numerous short stories, fables, short novels and articles for newspapers and magazines. Among his novels are "La colmena" (1951), "El molino de viento" (1956), "San Camilo 1936" (1969), "Cristo versus Arizona" (1988) and "Madera de boj" (1999). Cela also cultivated poetry and published, among other titles, "El monasterio y las palabras" (1945), "Cancionero de la Alcarria" (1948), "Tres poemas gallegos" (1957) and "Reloj de arena, reloj de sol, reloj de sangre" (1989). He also wrote three plays: "María Sabina" (1967), "Homenaje a El Bosco I. El carro del heno o el inventor de la guitarra" (1969) and "Homenaje a El Bosco II. The extraction of the stone of madness or the invention of the garrote (1999)". Cela received notable distinctions throughout his career, such as the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (1987), the Nobel Prize for Literature (1989) and the Miguel de Cervantes Award (1995).

Starting price 200 EUR

BECKETT Samuel BECKETT Samuel Reunion of 5 first editions on large paper. All copies are bound and uncut. - First love Paris, Minuit, 1970 1/92 copies marked "92" on select bouffant reserved for the Editions de Minuit bookshop. - Le Dépeupleur Paris, Minuit, 1970 1/201 copies on bouffant sélectant. - Not me Paris, Minuit, 1975 1/150 on Arches vellum, the only large-format paper in the trade - not Paris, Minuit, 1977 1/100 on Arches vellum, the only large-format paper - This time Paris, Minuit, 1978 1/100 on Arches vellum, the only large-format paper

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