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LOT 1056:
DUCHAMP MARCEL: (1887-1968) French painter and sculptor. A.L.S., Marcel Duchamp, two ...
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DUCHAMP MARCEL: (1887-1968) French painter and sculptor. A.L.S., Marcel Duchamp, two pages, 8vo, New York, 30th January 1964, to Georges Veron, in French. Duchamp states that Arman had provided Veron’s address and suggested that he write to him ‘Pour vous demander si vous pourez faire une transparence Ekta on Kodakchrome en couleur de 35mm d'un tableau a l'huile de Leger qui se trouve chez Dr. Robert Jullien’ (Translation: ‘To ask if you can make a 35mm colour Ekta on Kodakchrome transparency of an oil painting by Leger which is at Dr. Robert Jullien’s home’), further remarking ‘J'ai demande a Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet…..de vous faire la meme demande et de se charger de vous mettre en rapport avec Dr. Jullien ainsi que de vous regler le prix et tous les frais de deplacement’ (Translation: ‘I asked Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet…..to make the same request to you and to take charge of putting you in contact with Dr. Jullien as well as paying you the price and all travel expenses’) and concluding by adding that Lefebvre-Foinet will send the finished transparency to New York via air mail. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Duchamp and signed (‘Duchamp’; one tear slightly affecting the signature) by him in the return address to the verso. One small stain to the lower edge of the letter, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG
Arman (1928-2005) French-born American artist who first met Duchamp in New York in the early 1960s.
Fernand Leger (1881-1955) French painter, sculptor and filmmaker.
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet – French art collector and manager of a renowned family-owned shop in Paris which supplied brushes, canvasses and hand-ground oil paints to artists over several generations.
