Artists – France
Collection of 12 letters by artists including Signac, Bonnard, Matisse, Redon and others
Letters by Signac, Bonnard, Matisse and others, comprising:

Paul Signac. Autograph letter signed to Camille Pissarro, [c. early 1887], proposing to hold a joint exhibition, also to include Seurat and Dubois-Pillet, in a 'huge' venue hired by Libre for them in Brussels: 'on pourrait faire là, une petite exposition, aristocratiquement (!!) discrète. Notre nom reparaitrait, préparant notre grande exposition des années suivantes. . . Libre a une clientèle toute spéciale, des gens du monde, public que nous n'avons pas encore eu, il y a peut-être quelque chose à tenter'. Three pages.

Pierre Bonnard. Autograph letter signed to his mother, 21 February [c.1886-7], on his intention to try for the 'prix de Rome', a plan to sell some of his drawings and other matters. 3½ pages.

Also Henri Matisse (last page only of an autograph letter signed, n.d.), Odilon Redon (autograph card signed, 1910), Edouard Vuillard (1912), Jules Pascin (1922), Julius Bissier (1963), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (5 autograph letters signed to Jean Robert Delahaut, 1963-70, most on picture postcards); also a printed invitations to the funeral of Edouard Manet, 1883, and Eugène Manet, 1892.