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Georges LORIN

[Autographs - Correspondence] (Auxerre, April 7, 1850 - Paris, April 9, 1927), versatile artist, painter, sculptor, illustrator, caricaturist, musician and "Montmartre" poet. Important correspondence with his great friend Jules Lévy, famous publisher and writer. In 1878, Georges Lorin and poet Émile Goudeau founded the famous Hydropathes group, a literary club parodying bourgeois salons. It was there that they became friends, and Jules Lévy joined the club six months after its foundation. Through this impressive correspondence, we discover the artist's multiple personalities, his friends such as Maurice Rollinat, to whom he dedicated several poems and whose bust he made. In 1882, he mentions the Rollinat trial: "You know that Rollinat is suing his music publisher Hartmann. To avoid any surprises, we must make sure that Hartmann has not published anything after the bailiff's summons". As well as his enmities, notably with journalist and poet Félicien Champsaur: "I'm sorry to tell you that I don't want to be complicit in any current collaboration with Champsaur. He doesn't shy away from certain points of view. I'm not bad with him (...) but his processes are sometimes too unashamed, and his name next to mine in an artistic work can only compromise me." In his correspondence, he cites some of his works, and his relationships with other publishers: "Ollendorff only gave me 15 Gens [rhymed fantasy, published by Ollendorff in 1882]. I need 15 more. Take them from him in one or two copies, without revealing their destination. It will have a small effect, and it will cost me very little, since I'll get my royalties back... Promise me you won't show this letter to anyone, not even to yourself. Destroy it. "I paint naked women in mountains lit by setting suns. It's amazing (my words). Maybe it'll make me famous. Some of his letters are signed "Cabriol", the pseudonym used for his illustrations in Les Hydropathes. The correspondence comprises 38 letters of all sizes, written in brown ink, sometimes on Lithographie Artistique Vallet, Minot et Cie letterhead, all addressed to Jules Lévy, nicknamed "Mon p'tit Jules", "Mon cher Vieux", "Mon cher ami", "Mon cher Lévy". Also included are 2 autograph letters signed "Bibi-Lolo" and embellished with a small drawing, and 4 autograph pieces in verse signed and one unsigned but illustrated piece of 4 lines, as well as the typed text of his poem "Le Marché aux Fleurs", hand-dedicated to the writer Fernand Icres (3 pages in-4). Finally, a posthumous file is attached to the artist, consisting of a typed text in his honor by writer Myriam Aghion (3 pages in-4, from 1929), a letter from administrator Morael informing of the unsealing of Georges Lorin's home, dated October 4, 1927, two newspaper articles and an anonymous typed text: "April 14, 1927 / I've been missing for three days in l'Infini / Don't invite me to dinner again, I'll be too late... / Don't miss me, I was very tired... / Cheers to my total rest and to your prolonged health / Please accept my wishes for a very late Eternity / Ex - Georges Lorin / rue de Nulle part, Zéro-Ville".

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Georges LORIN

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