Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Important archive of... - Lot 154 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Important archive of Jean Lesquibe (Anglet 1910-1995), master glassmaker, gold medal at the 1937 International Exhibition, founder in Anglet of the Saltimbanques group (1944), and organiser of exhibitions as part of the "Entretiens de Bayonne". A fine collection on art in the Basque Country. - Correspondence. Approximately 210 letters addressed to Jean Lesquibe by painters (Basque, Spanish, French), sculptors, upholsterers, glassmakers, gallery owners, etc. : Helena Adamoff (2), Gérard Altmann (3), Mariano Andreu (2), Jean-Claude Athane (3), Monica Bastide (10), Jean Baudet painter of the new figuration and decorator of the opera (6), Odette Blanc-Falaize upholsterer (7 + 1 photo), Maurice Boulnois (4), Enrico Brandani (2), Noé Canjura (2), Carzou (on his behalf), Roger Chapelain-Midi (on his behalf), Paul Charlot, Etienne Collignon (4 including 1 illustrated), Geneviève Couteau (4), Jos Decock (2), François Desnoyer, Colette Dubuc-Pourtau, Jacqueline Duhême (4), Gaston Ferdière psychiatrist of Antonin Artaud, Marcel Genay, Marianne Guignard, Otto Hahn, Maria Paz Jimenez, André Lacombe, Mady de La Giraidière (8), Gaston Larrieu (4), Bernard Lorjou (+ 2 in his name), Jean Lurçat (in his name), Henri Hecht Maïk, Anne Mandeville (5), Alfred Manessier (in his name), Hélène Margaritis (2), Marixa, Jean Millien, Pierre Palué (3), Jean Picard-Ledoux (2, in his own name), Claude Roederer painter, decorator and costume designer with close ties to the Surrealists, collaborator of Christian Bérard (15), Gaëtan de Rosnay (4), Saozi (7), Maurice Elie Sarthou (4), Christian Schmidt, Marcelle Sibot, Simon Simon-Auguste (2), Maurice Verdier (4), etc. but also gallery owners (Maeght, etc.), and other unidentified ones. - an important set of documentation on Jean Lesquibe: a brochure published in homage to Jean Lesquibe, drafts of letters (to Zadkine, Manessier, etc.), documents on the exhibitions in Bayonne (5 lists with the contact details of the exhibitors and the selling price, etc.), a list of the exhibitions in Bayonne (5 lists with the contact details of the exhibitors and the selling price, etc.).