Drouot.com application
All the bids in your pocket!
Download
Upcoming auctions
Categories
Home
Upcoming auctions
Sale
500 AUTOGRAPHS, starting bid of 10 euros
More details
Remaining time:
10d 07h 10m 11s
Timed auctions
Until
Tuesday, November 10 | 01:30 PM
Sale's informations
Vermot et Associés
+33 1 71 19 42 16
info@vermotetassocies.com
5, rue Drouot
75009, Paris
Register
Filter
Estimation
500 results
Until November 10 | 04:50 PM
401 - Marcel BLEUSTEIN-BLANCHET (1906–1996, advertising executive and founder of Publicis) / Hand-signed typewritten letter, 1 page, large 8vo, on his letterhead, December 8, 1966, to media executive Louis Merkin
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:51 PM
402 - Auguste MAQUET (1813–1888, novelist and collaborator of Alexandre Dumas, Sr.) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8 plus an address page with postage, to Adolphe DESBARROLES (1801–1886, occultist and palm reader): it mentions a communication regarding the composer Niedermeyer and the Prince of the Moskva
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:51 PM
403 - Jules LEMAITRE (1853–1914, writer and critic of the Académie française) / A postcard from the *Annales politiques et littéraires* depicting him, which he signed by hand and inscribed with the autographed motto: “Criticism is the art of enjoying books.”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:52 PM
404 - William Osborne MCDOWELL (1848–1927, American financier and businessman in the railroad and mining industries, deeply involved in patriotic organizations, one of the founders of the League for Peace, of which he served as president, and an advocate for Cuban independence) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., oblong in-8, on letterhead of the “Pan-Republic Congress Committee” (an employers’ organization he founded), Newark, New Jersey, September 5, 1892, to Emile Arnaud (1866–1929, a lawyer
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:52 PM
405 - Robert WAUCHOPE (1788–1862, Admiral in the Royal Navy, he invented the "time ball," which allowed marine chronometers to be synchronized with a reference time standard for determining longitude (used until the widespread adoption of electronic time signals) / Autograph document signed “R. Wauchope capt. retr.” (retired captain), 1 page in-8, written in Lisieux (Calvados, France) on June 15, 1843, in which he asks his business correspondent to exchange three English promissory notes for him
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:53 PM
406 - Louis Arsène DELAUNAY (1826–1903, actor with the Comédie-Française) / Original photograph by Charles Reutlinger, visiting card size (6.4 x 10.5 cm), signed and dated in his own hand, August 4, 1891
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:53 PM
407 - CORSICA - Joseph OTTAVI (1809–1841, Corsican journalist and critic; related to the Bonapartes on his mother’s side. He was a great orator, both in Masonic lodges and at the Café Procope. He died at the age of 32) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, small quarto plus address page, Paris, January 29, 1840
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:54 PM
408 - MATHEMATICS - Thomas CRAIG (1855–1900, American mathematician) / Original cabinet-size photograph (11 x 16.5 cm), by Cummins in Baltimore, with a handwritten and signed dedication on the back dated January 20, 1888
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:54 PM
409 - Louis-Joseph LUCON (1842–1930, Cardinal Archbishop of Reims) / Print by Isabelle Charlier depicting Cardinal Luçon in prayer in the devastated Reims Cathedral, which he signed by hand and to which he attached a fragment of his garment as a relic (33.5 x 325.5 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:55 PM
410 - Jules CHERET (1836–1932, poster artist, painter, and lithographer) / An album page compiled by a collector in the 1950s featuring Jules Chéret, featuring an original photograph (cropped to make room for a caption), with an autograph dedication signed by Jules Chéret to Christian Moerdes (originally 9 x 7 cm), he is pictured alongside the recipient of the dedication in 1913 in front of the Casino de Dieppe
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:55 PM
411 - Elise VOÏART (1786–1866, writer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, small quarto, Choisy-le-Roi, March 3, 1828
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:56 PM
412 - Frédéric SOULIE (1800–1847, novelist and serial writer) / autograph signed letter, 1 p. in-8 plus address page, to the director of the Théâtre de l’Odéon: he requests a box for the revival of *Angèle* / Enclosed: period engraved portrait
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:56 PM
413 - Gabriel de LA LANDELLE (1812–1886), a naval officer, writer, and aviation pioneer, was an inspiration to Jules Verne; he developed a prototype steam-powered helicopter, founded the “Society for the Promotion of Aerial Locomotion by Means of Heavier-than-Air Vehicles” with his friend Nadar, and was passionate about the early days of aeronautics; he was the first to use the term “aviation” in 1863 to refer to “air navigation,” a term that would later be adopted and expanded upon by h
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:57 PM
414 - Alice COCEA (1842–1899–1970, actress and singer) / Original photograph by Studio Iris, which she autographed and signed by hand in April 1937 (11.5 x 17 cm mounted on laid paper, 15.5 x 22 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:57 PM
415 - Bill MARSHALL (1917–1994, American actor and director) / Program photo autographed and signed by him in commemoration of the “Sugar War” in 1957 (13 x 18 cm mounted on laid paper, 15 x 21.5 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:58 PM
416 - Abel BONNARD (1883–1968, writer and collaborationist politician) / Signed autograph letter, 3 pages, in-8, Paris, June 21, 1906: a letter written in his youth to Catulle Mendès and his wife
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:58 PM
417 - René BLUM (1878–deported in 1942, journalist and writer, brother of Léon, childhood friend of Marcel Proust) / Hand-signed typewritten letter, 2 pages, in-8 format (with binder holes), on “Le Journal” letterhead, January 4, 1916: he regrets that he cannot publish his correspondent’s article; the way the correspondent speaks of women, despite the masterful scope of his study, “would be lost on the masses, who, misunderstanding it, would take offense.”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:59 PM
418 - Yigal TUMARKIN (1933–2021, Israeli painter and sculptor, known for his Holocaust memorial on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv) / Typed contract signed in his own hand, 1 page in-4, July 12, 1961, with the Galerie Saint-Germain in Paris through the Galerie Israel Ltd. in Tel Aviv, whose owner, Samuel DUBINER (1914–1993), also signed it in his own hand
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 04:59 PM
419 - Germain RAINGO-PELOUSE (1893–1963, painter, great-nephew of Claude Monet) / Original photograph of a painting (17 x 22 cm), captioned and signed in his own hand on the back: “Salon des Indépendants – 1931 – Down with War,” with the painter’s stamp and the photographer J. Roseman’s stamp
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:00 PM
420 - Jean de LA VARENDE (Chamblac, 1887–1959, novelist and member of the Académie Goncourt) / A typewritten letter signed and dated in his own hand, with a few handwritten corrections and additions, Chamblac, May 27, 1944: he discusses the behind-the-scenes details of the “Grand Prix Balzac,” for which he served on the jury
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:00 PM
421 - Henri DUPIN (1787–1887, librettist and collaborator of Eugène Scribe) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, on letterhead bearing his crowned monogram, July 20, 1881, to Eugène Bertrand, director of the Opera
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:01 PM
422 - FEMINISM - Ellen Key (1849–1926, Swedish feminist writer) / Autograph signed letter, June 7, 1909, to Swiss writer Julie Mestral-Combremont
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:01 PM
423 - Marshal VAILLANT (Jean-Baptiste-Philibert, 1790–1872, military officer and politician) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, Paris, April 10, 1864, to his cousin; envelope preserved with “Service de l’Empereur” postage
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:02 PM
424 - Jules CHERET (1836–1932, painter and poster artist) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages in 12mo format (a minor missing section due to previous pasting in an album), May 14, 1903: he has returned and arranges to meet at his studio to hand over a red chalk drawing
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:02 PM
425 - PARAGUAY – José Félix ESTIGARRIBIA (1888–1940, President of Paraguay from February 19 to September 7, 1940; he died in a plane crash) / A business card bearing his name with a few handwritten words; rare as a presidential item
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:03 PM
426 - Paul de KOCK (1793–1871, novelist and playwright) / signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8 plus address page with postage, February 22, 1836 / Enclosed: engraved portrait
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:03 PM
427 - Fromenthal HALEVY (1799–1862, composer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, with his embossed monogram: “I am very sorry to hear that you were inconvenienced by the way things are run at my house; my maid will speak with your staff to ensure that the inconvenience you complained about does not happen again.”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:04 PM
428 - Charles de PIXERECOURT (1773–1844, playwright) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8 plus an address page, to the administrator of the Opéra-Comique
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:04 PM
429 - Gustave SAMAZEUILH (1877–1967, composer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-12 plus an address page with postage, April 19, 1923, to the British musicologist Walther Straram
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:05 PM
430 - Sophie GAY (1776–1852, woman of letters and salon hostess) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, to Jules JANIN (note on the back): She has just arrived from Versailles and has not yet seen Mademoiselle Rachel; she writes to implore her “dear, kind Jules” to make room for her in his box at the Comédie Française, since on busy days she is not given preferential treatment, “yet I am an old friend of Talma’s” / Enclosed: an article from a contemporary newspaper reviewing one of her n
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:05 PM
431 - Pierre-Alexis PONSON du TERRAIL (1829–1871, serial writer known for his *Adventures of Rocambole*) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, plus an address page
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:06 PM
432 - Clementinia de GRIMALDI (painter and hostess; she is known for a series of portraits of high society figures) / Signed autograph letter, written in the third person, 1 p. in-8 plus address page, circa 1820–30: an invitation to an evening gathering at her home on Rue de Richelieu, where her correspondent “will find her friends and people who will be very flattered to welcome him.”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:06 PM
433 - Jules KLEIN (1845–1902, composer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, Geneva, October 21, 1871 / Enclosed: printed flyer announcing the release of his waltz “which is all the rage right now”: “Fraises au Champagne”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:07 PM
434 - NAST PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY / An autograph letter in the third person from the Marquise de Laplace (wife of Pierre Simon de Laplace, the famous astronomer), dated September 21, 1824, addressed to Mr. Nast at the Porcelain Manufactory on Rue des Amandiers: she requests that samples of white porcelain dinner service be presented to her at her home at 100 Rue du Bac
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:07 PM
435 - Jean-Baptiste LE BRUN (1748–1813, art dealer, husband of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun) / Autograph receipt acknowledging Adélaïde MOITTE (née Castellas, 1747–1807, painter, student of Jean-Jacques Le Barbier, who married the sculptor Jean-Guillaume Moitte, known for the quality of her drawings and ink washes and her involvement during the Revolution, she led a procession of 11 female artists in September 1789 who appeared before the National Assembly to offer their jewelry to the Nation), 1 p
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:08 PM
436 - LIMOGES – Bishop Jean-Marie-Philippe DUBOURG (1751–1822, Bishop of Limoges from 1802 until his death) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, small quarto, Limoges, August 13, 1804
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:08 PM
437 - ORLEANS – Monsignor Nicolas-Joseph de PÂRIS (1680–1757, Bishop of Orléans from 1733 to 1754) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, large 8vo, Paris, March 8, 1736
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:09 PM
438 - AMIENS - Monsignor Antoine de SALINIS (1798–1861, Bishop of Amiens from 1849 to 1856, then Archbishop of Auch) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., large 8vo
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:09 PM
439 - TOULOUSE – Monsignor Anne-Antoine-Jules de CLERMONT-TONNERRE (1749–1830, Cardinal, Archbishop of Toulouse, Duke and Peer of France; in 1789, he served as a Deputy to the Estates-General) / A document signed in his own hand, oblong quarto, bearing a letterhead with his engraved coat of arms, a dry-stamped seal bearing his coat of arms beneath the paper, dated June 20, 1824, appointing clergy to his cathedral of Saint-Étienne
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:10 PM
440 - MONTPELLIER – Monsignor Marie Nicolas FOURNIER de LA CONTAMINE (1760–1834, Bishop of Montpellier from 1806 to 1834, Baron of the Empire) / A document in Latin signed in his own hand, 1 page in-4, with an engraved letterhead bearing his coat of arms, issued at his Episcopal Palace in 1810, bearing his dry seal
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:10 PM
441 - LIMOGES – Bishop Bernard BUISSAS (1798–1856, Bishop of Limoges from 1844 until his death) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, in-8 format, on the letterhead of the Diocese of Limoges, November 10, 1852
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:11 PM
442 - QUIMPER - René-Nicolas SERGENT (1802–1871, Bishop of Quimper and Léon) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, Quimper, August 15, 1857
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:11 PM
443 - EMPIRE – Bishop of MAINZ (Joseph Ludwig COLMAR, 1760–1818, first bishop of Mainz after the Concordat, appointed by Napoleon, Baron of the Empire) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., small in-4, Mainz, 22 Thermidor Year 13 (August 10, 1805), to a lady (Reiset family, envelope enclosed)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:12 PM
444 - Tristan BERNARD (1866–1947, writer and humorist) / Program photo with a caption, dated, and signed in his own hand: “I’m less tanned but more handsome, May 12, 1937” (12 x 17 cm mounted on laid paper, 15.5 x 21.5 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:12 PM
445 - André DUNOYER de SEGONZAC (1884–1974, painter) / Autograph signed letter-card, 1 p. in-12 plus address page, to Mademoiselle Coutex, his model, to schedule a sitting
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:13 PM
446 - Pierre-Yves TREMOIS (1921–2020, painter) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, quarto size, on his letterhead, Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, April 5, 1996, to art critic André Parinaud, regarding a monument to Charles de Gaulle on the Grand Place in Metz
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:13 PM
447 - Michel GYARMATHY (1908–1996, Artistic Director of the Folies Bergère for over 50 years, designer of the revues’ sets and costumes) / Original drawing in blue ink executed in his own hand on the back of a reused, open envelope (mail addressed to him at his home address): a sketch for a set that would be used in a revue, a very large, three-dimensional animated frame
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:14 PM
448 - FAR RIGHT - Noël B. DE LA MORT (Noël Bayon, 1910–1977, writer and polemical journalist, columnist for the collaborationist newspaper *Je suis partout*, friend of Robert Brasillach) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, in-4 format, Paris, May 6, 1934, to Madame Henri Béraud, wife of the writer and polemical journalist
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:14 PM
449 - Gabriel MARCEL (1889–1973, philosopher) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, Paris, May 30, 1929, to the poet André Rolland de Réneville, envelope preserved: he informs him of his recommendation to the NRF on his behalf to Jean Paulhan
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:15 PM
450 - Pierre MAC ORLAN (1882–1970, writer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, quarto, on his letterhead, Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin, June 1950, to journalist and writer André Parinaud (1924–2006), regarding a television series devoted to his work / Enclosed: 3 typewritten copies of a letter from André Parinaud
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:15 PM
451 - Pierre MAC ORLAN (1882–1970, writer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, in-4, on his letterhead, Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin, June 20, 1950, to journalist and writer André Parinaud (1924–2006), regarding a television series devoted to his work / Enclosed: a typewritten copy of a letter from André Parinaud
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:16 PM
452 - Daniel WILDENSTEIN (1917–2001, art dealer and historian) / Hand-signed typewritten letter, 1 p., in-8, May 13, 1970, regarding paintings offered for sale
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:16 PM
453 - PHOTOGRAPHY – Edouard BOUBAT (1923–1999, photographer) / Invitation card to his January 1985 exhibition at the Agathe Gaillard Gallery, with a handwritten, signed note on the back (15 x 10.5 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:17 PM
454 - Reda CAIRE (1905–1963, singer) / Program photo mounted on an album page, autographed and signed by him in 1938 (15.5 x 22 cm overall)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:17 PM
455 - GREECE – Sophie of GREECE (1914–2001, Princess of Greece and Denmark, sister of the Duke of Edinburgh, the late husband of Queen Elizabeth II) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, large 8vo, Paris, January 25, 1940
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:18 PM
456 - House of Savoy - Ferdinand of Savoy-Genoa (1884–1963, admiral) / Autographed greeting card, Venice, January 11, 1936, 4-page insert (24 x 17 cm), cover illustrated with a Venetian landscape
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:18 PM
457 - House of Savoy—Philibert of Savoy-Genoa (1895–1990, Italian general) and his wife Lydia of Savoy (née Arenberg, 1905–1977) / Autographed greeting card from Lydia, signed by both, December 1955, 4-page insert (17.5 x 16 cm), cover illustrated with the facade of their property in Lausanne
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:19 PM
458 - SPAIN - Maria Christina of Spain (1911–1996, daughter of King Alfonso XIII, wife of Count Marone) / A thank-you card for condolences, signed in her own hand with a few words, 1 p., small oblong 8vo
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:19 PM
459 - AUSTRIA - Archduke Robert of AUSTRIA (1915–1996, son of Emperor Charles I of Austria and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma) / Hand-signed typewritten letter, 1 page, in-8 format, January 6, 1956, regarding the servicing of his Citroën 2CV
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:20 PM
460 - Marguerite MORENO (1871–1948, actress) / Photograph on a postcard signed in her own hand, 1930s
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:20 PM
461 - Vincent SCOTTO (1874–1952, composer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, oblong 8vo, on his letterhead, Paris, November 3, 1941, to librettist Albert WILLEMETZ: He is sending him the libretto for “Son Amour”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:21 PM
462 - OPERA – Caroline MIOLAN-CARVALHO (1827–1895, soprano) / Signed autograph letter, 3 pages, in-8
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:21 PM
463 - [Alexandre DUMAS, Sr.] – Charles Ogé BARBAROUX (1792–1867, son of a member of the National Convention, magistrate, and senator of the Second Empire) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p. in-8 plus address page, to Alexandre Dumas (the Elder), then “Employee at the Secretariat of H.R.H. the Duke of Orléans,” at the Palais-Royal (it is known that in 1823, on the recommendation of General Foy, the young Alexandre Dumas, aged 20, was employed by the Duke of Orléans)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:22 PM
464 - Alphonse KARR (1808–1890, novelist and journalist) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, Paris / Enclosed: portrait on a postcard
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:22 PM
465 - Thierry SANDRE (1890–1950, writer, winner of the 1924 Prix Goncourt; he served as Pierre Louÿs’s secretary) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, large 8vo, regarding his *Livre des Baisers* (1922) / Enclosed: a collection of newspaper clippings about him
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:23 PM
466 - BOTANY - Pierre Jean François TURPIN (1775–1840, an illustrator who studied under Redouté and a botanist; his famous botanical watercolors are considered the most beautiful scientific illustrations of all time) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages in-8 plus an address page with postage, Paris, June 18, 1825, to the naturalist Monsieur Dumont (this may refer to Charles-Henri Dumont de Sainte-Croix, for whom Turpin worked)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:23 PM
467 - Alain RESNAIS (1922–2014, filmmaker) / A postcard signed in his own hand, from Scotland, 1970s, addressed to the writer Madeleine Chapsal; the card was written and signed by his wife Florence (née Malraux, daughter of André, 1933–2018)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:24 PM
468 - Nathalie BAYE (1948–2026, actress) / Signed autograph card, 1 p., oblong in-8, on her letterhead, Paris, January 20, 1987, to the writer Madeleine CHAPSAL; envelope preserved
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:24 PM
469 - USA - Léon URIS (1924–2003, American writer) / Signed autograph note, 1 p., oblong 8vo, 1979, on his letterhead, “Shalom” / Enclosed: cover letter from April 1979 from his secretary, envelope preserved
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:25 PM
470 - USA - William STYRON (1925–2006, American novelist) / Autographed, signed correspondence card, 1 p., small oblong 8vo plus a stamped address page, on his letterhead, 1979
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:25 PM
471 - Shelby FOOTE (1916–2005, American novelist) / Autographed aerogram, 1 p., small in-4 format plus a stamped address page, 1979
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:26 PM
472 - Elizabeth YATES (1905–2001, American writer), Autographed insert card with illustrated cover, 1 p. in-12, 1970s, autographed envelope included
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:26 PM
473 - Marcel JOUHANDEAU (1888–1979, writer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, Rueil-Malmaison, 1950s, [to Marcel Mithois, then literary director of the magazine “Réalités”: He offers him a text, “but you don’t have to like it,” and thanks him for the copies of “Réalités” / Enclosed: portrait on a modern postcard
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:27 PM
474 - Daniel LIBESKIND (born in 1946, American architect) / Postcard depicting the Jewish Museum in Berlin, signed by him on the back
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:27 PM
475 - Richard MEIER (born in 1934, American architect) / Postcard depicting the Bronx Developmental Center in New York, which he signed on the back with his hand in 2008
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:28 PM
476 - OPERA – Ken NEATE (1914–1997, Australian tenor) / Photograph on a postcard, autographed and signed in his own hand in 1956, depicting him in “Rigoletto” / Enclosed: the accompanying letter, typewritten and signed by him, 1 p. in-8, on letterhead from the Hôtel de l’Europe in Amsterdam, June 28, 1956
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:28 PM
477 - DANCE – Denise BOURGEOIS (born in 1925; she was a principal dancer with the Paris Opera and later joined the Ballets du Marquis de Cuevas) / Photograph by the Studio on Rue Tronchet, autographed and signed by her in 1947 (17 x 24 cm mounted on laid paper, 21 x 27.5 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:29 PM
478 - DANCE – Buppha Dévi NORODOM (1943–2019, Cambodian princess, dancer, director of the Royal Ballets of Cambodia, and Minister of Culture of Cambodia) / Photograph (15 x 19.5 cm) signed in her own hand and a typed letter signed (with a Cambodian signature), 1 page in quarto on letterhead, from 2010
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:29 PM
479 - ORLEANS - Jean de FOURCROY (Canon and Dean of the Church of Orléans) / A document in Latin, partially printed, 2 pages in oblong 8vo format with an initial letter, which he completed and signed in his own hand, issued in Orléans on March 12, 1680: He grants permission to Fr. Regnard to celebrate Mass in the parish church of Saint-Victor
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:30 PM
480 - FINANCE Reign of Louis XIV – Pierre GRÜYN (died 1722, financier, Keeper of the Royal Treasury) / Hand-signed receipt on parchment (29.5 x 22.5 cm), issued in Paris on December 18, 1699: receipt for the sum of 14,000 livres in gold and silver louis
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:30 PM
481 - Clémence de GRANDVAL (née de Reiset, 1828–1907, composer, student of Saint-Saëns; she received piano lessons from Chopin) / Signed autograph letter, 3 pages, in-8, from Fontainebleau: she is working on her opera, complains about Mr. Pasdeloup, affirms her friendship with music publisher Georges Hartmann, and regarding “the Union of Young Composers” (note: a short-lived association founded in 1882—which helps date this letter—by Ernest Chausson, perhaps the recipient of this letter?)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:31 PM
482 - Félicien CHAMPSAUR (1858–1934, man of letters) / Page from E. Gibon’s guestbook, with a heading on which he inscribed a handwritten motto signed in 1915 (16 x 24 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:31 PM
483 - [Gustave MOREAU] / Partially printed letter from the Prefect of the Seine, 2 pages in-4, February 13, 1899, to Mr. and Mrs. Bisson de La Roque in Bourseville (Somme), regarding the bequest of the painter Gustave Moreau
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:32 PM
484 - Jacques BELTRAND (1874–1977, painter, friend, and collaborator of Maurice Denis) / Signed autograph letter dated July 1949, written on an original wood panel depicting Corneille (signed and dated in pencil in his own hand) (25.5 x 20 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:32 PM
485 - [Georges SAND] - Tony JOHANNOT (1803–1852, illustrator and engraver) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page in-8 plus an address page with postage, March 13, 1852, to the publisher E. Blanchard (successor to Jules Hetzel), who was overseeing the publication of George Sand’s Œuvres Illustrées - Johannot urgently requests engraving blocks for “Valentine”: “I no longer have a single block for the page titles, which need to be started,” “I have only a few blocks left in poor condition, se
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:33 PM
486 - Robert KASTOR (1872–1935, illustrator, avid collector of autographs) / Signed autograph postcard, Compiègne, June 30, 1901, to the painter Jules BENOIT-LEVY (1866–1952), featuring an image of one of his paintings: “I am sending you this postcard so you can enjoy a little of your own fame”; he is working on his Empire-style panels
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:33 PM
487 - TOTAL Group – Ernest MERCIER (1878–1955, oil industrialist, founder of the Compagnie Française du Pétrole, now Total Energies) / Typewritten letter signed in his own hand, 1 page, quarto size, on his letterhead, Paris, July 21, 1938, to Georges Prade of the “Revue Bleue” / Enclosed: a typewritten copy of Prade’s reply, 1 page, quarto size
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:34 PM
488 - Pierre-Yves TREMOIS (1921–2020, painter) / Autograph letter signed “Pierre Yves,” 1 page, in-4, on his letterhead, Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, to art critic André Parinaud: He reassures his correspondent about his health and comments on his article about “the gifted students at Lycée Janson de Sailly”: “I was a gifted student with an IQ of 150, a slacker, and what a job it was to do nothing—a general mobilization of the pyramidal cells.”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:34 PM
489 - MUSIC HALL – Oscar DUFRENNE (1875–1933, music hall manager, Parisian nightlife magnate; his assassination at the Palace was one of the most sensational news stories of the interwar period) / A typewritten letter signed in his own hand, 1 page, quarto size, on the letterhead of his music halls, addressed to the illustrator and poster artist Albert Piétri
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:35 PM
490 - OPERA - Victor CAPOUL (1839–1924, tenor) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages in-4, on letterhead from the Grand Hôtel in Brussels, January 10, 1888, to Eugène Bertrand, director of the Opéra-Comique
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:35 PM
491 - Cécile SOREL (1873–1966, actress with the Comédie Française) / Signed autograph letter, 2 pages, in-4 format; the letterhead is the directions to her country home in Mériel
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:36 PM
492 - Paul GUTH (1910–1997, novelist and columnist) / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, quarto, Paris, June 3, 1960, to Marcel Mithois, columnist for “Jours de France,” regarding his “Jeanne la Mince”
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:36 PM
493 - GASTRONOMY - Pierre ANDROUET (1915–2005, renowned cheesemaker, pioneer in creating a restaurant dedicated exclusively to cheese, founder of the Guilde des Fromagers and the Confrérie de Saint-Uguzon) / Autographed card, 2 pages, oblong in-8 format, on his letterhead, February 28, 1989
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:37 PM
494 - AMIENS – HAZART and RAYEZ (clothing, drapery, velvet weaving) / Invoice with illustrated letterhead, 2 pages, in-4, November 19, 1873
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:37 PM
495 - Aurélie de SOUBIRAN, Princess GHIKA (1820–1904, woman of letters and wife of Prince Grigore Ghika) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8, Lectoure (Gers), August 15, 1870: She places an order with the newspaper “Le Figaro” for “two maps of the theater of war” and encloses a fragment of the newspaper’s printed postage strip, on which her subscriber number appears
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:38 PM
496 - Federico RICCI (1809–1877, Italian composer) / Signed autograph letter, 1 p., in-8 (mounted on an album page), Saint Petersburg, January 10, 1868
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:38 PM
497 - HANS-ADAM II of LIECHTENSTEIN (born in 1945, Sovereign Prince of Liechtenstein since 1989) / His signature on an album page featuring a magazine photo (cardstock, 12.5 x 20 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:39 PM
498 - Edward HEATH (1916–2005, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1971 to 1974) / Original photograph signed by him in blue ink (11 x 16 cm)
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:39 PM
499 - ASTRONOMY - David GILL (1843–1914, Scottish astronomer, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope Observatory in South Africa from 1879 to 1906; pioneer of astrophotography; he determined the distance to the Sun as well as the distances to several stars; craters on Mars and the Moon are named after him) / Autograph signed letter in English, 2 pages, large 8vo, Royal Astronomical Society, London, June 27, 1887, to Admiral Mouchez, regarding communications and reports on their respective work
Starting price
€10
Until November 10 | 05:40 PM
500 - Frederick Francis I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Friedrich Franz von Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 1756–1837) – Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin / Signed autograph letter, 1 page, small quarto, Ludwigslust, December 17, 1822, envelope flap preserved with a red wax seal bearing the coat of arms (faintly imprinted): Thanks for birthday greetings sent on the occasion of his birthday
Starting price
€10
1
2
3
4
5
Go to
Select
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Page 5
Drouot App
Explore, discover and bid on thousands of exceptional objects with the Drouot app
![[Alexandre DUMAS, Sr.] – Charles Ogé BARBAROUX (17](https://cdn.drouot.com/d/lot/ftall/351/187394/de5e2a4fb3f40eeb61f566dd83a08d96)
![[Gustave MOREAU] / Partially printed letter from t](https://cdn.drouot.com/d/lot/ftall/351/187394/52e08251dbdda940700fa69d9a41cde6)
![[Georges SAND] - Tony JOHANNOT (1803–1852, illustr](https://cdn.drouot.com/d/lot/ftall/351/187394/e1a4b165f8f112ca87c7bcf99850f545)
