DUFY RAOUL (1877-1953).

L.A.S. "Raoul Dufy", Paris "31 quai Bourbon" April 4, 1905; 2 pages in-8. Beautiful letter about art and painters. "I think that the influence of Manet, Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Degas, Seurat and Pissaro weighs too heavily on the art of the present day for one to find any hint of a truly new direction. If you mean by impressionism the whole of the tendencies so different from the painters of 1870, no, impressionism is not finished. I don't know enough about Gaugain's work to tell you about it, as for Wisther and Fantin-Latour, they are painters without a phrase who didn't linger either on the literary or on the technical side of their art, while Cézanne likes to assert very strongly technical preoccupations. - Painters to whom I often think of Rembrandt, Velasquez, Le Lorrain, Manet, Seurat. I ask nature for the means to realize what Life inspires me to do"...