Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE (1848-1884), naturalist... - Lot 419 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE (1848-1884), naturalist... - Lot 419 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE (1848-1884), naturalist painter and portraitist. - Autograph letter signed to Sarah Bernhardt. 1 p. in-8. December 1878. On his very famous and magnificent profile portrait of Sarah Bernhardt [presented at the Salon in 1879, now in the Fine Art Museum in San Francisco]. "Thursday evening we decided on your portrait; since then I have thought of it often; and now even more than Thursday. I have a dream of doing a beautiful thing. The artist lives on illusion, emotion and dreams; better than I do, you know it and live on it. To reach the goal. To make a beautiful work, what a beautiful dream! It is there that I am. Ah! if in the work that I want to do, I can only put half of the emotion that inspired it, you will be happy and I will be too [] ". - L.A.S. evoking 2 drawings and a painting. - L.A.S. to "Mr. President", 1 p. in-4, on the letterhead of the Society of French Artists for the Fine Arts Exhibition of 1882. Request for an urgent meeting to discuss the decoration of the Salon.
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