Maximilien LUCE (1858-1941). 2 signed drawings and P.A.S., 1925 and n.d., [to his friends Thorndike]; 3 sheets, various sizes. View of a village entrance, signed and dated 1925 (pencil and pen, 10.3 x 13.5 cm), on the back of an exhibition card at Galerie Georges Petit (December 1925) with a.s. dispatch: "à M. Thorndike avec mes meilleurs souhaits de 1926 Luce".View of a seaside with rocks and pine trees, signed (pencil and pen on buff paper, 12;3 x 16.5 cm)."Mes chers mais Entendu pour Lundi Midi Amitiés à tous"... (oblong in-12 on the back of a card with pacifist engraving).Attached is a l.a.s. from Frédéric Luce, Paris January 11, 1949, to Mrs. Thorndike and the Henri Donias.

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