105 - Edward Gordon CRAIG (1872-1966)

Edward Gordon CRAIG (1872-1966) Lot de 4 L.A.S. et de 2 C.A.S. en anglais écrites entre 1913 et 1914, adressées d'Italie à Jurgis Kasimirovitch Baltruchaïtis (1873-1944), alors entre Paris, Rome et Moscou : -3 janvier 1913 "I do not want to see people. I want to see no one & I want you to be here. Perhaps that is the cry of a restless dissatisfied brute who ought to be killed. But I feel my solitary just now & enjoy feeling alone. I am decidedly not very well, for my nerves are so foolish they start teasing my body with very little excuse. I see pigeons flying round the city & I feel happy. Someone say "Come sta Craig" & I feel quite ill at once. If they say "How do you do, what news from Bulgaria" I feel ready to faint like the oldman of Edward Hear's book. But I should welcome your coming. (...) I have been asked once more to go to America. Ugh." -une longue L.A.S. du 18 avril 1913, il réfléchit sur le théâtre "What is this torn-foolery in London-Moscow-Paris- St Petersburg-Berlin-Munich, does it really believe that its parody of art, its foolish inventions, have anything whatever to do with the parents of all arts, imagination & ecstasy ?" -une C.A.S. adressée à Maria Ivanovna Olovyanichnikova (c.1879-1948) datée du 19 février 1914, J.K. Baltruchaïtis a retrouvé Craig à Florence avant son train et ils écrivent tous les deux une carte à Maria Ivanovna. -18 mai 1914 "Dear B. I hope you are well and that your activities agree well with you. By now you have learnt a little more of the stage than you knew 18 months ago. I hope the knowledge has not formed like an indiarubber mist between you & that which ought still to be the Theatre." MC Provenance -Jurgis Kasimirovitch Baltruchaïtis (1873-1944), diplomate et poète lituanien. -Leur fils, Jurgis Jurgissovitch Baltruchaïtis (1903-1988), historien. -Son épouse, Hélène Baltruchaïtis (1908-2004), née Castel-Focillon, fille d'Henri Focillon (1881-1943). -Puis par descendance.