Degas, Edgar. (1834 - 1917)
Autograph Letter to Felix Bracquemond
Autograph letter from the important Impressionist painter to French painter and etcher Félix Bracquemond, arranging a meeting. Postmarked May 30, 1904. Translated from the French: "My dear Bracquemond, we will have to meet tomorrow. On Tuesday I am taking the train at 2:20 and will be at your door about 3:00. Yours, Degas." 1 p., addressed and postmarked on the verso. Perforated edges and light toning; overall in fine condition. 4.25 x 5.5 inches (11.2 x 14.1 cm)."Degas advocated working with other artists in search of new techniques. He was close to Félix Bracquemond, a peintre-graveur who had been at the forefront of such engravers' enterprises of the 1860s as the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and the Société des Aquafortistes (1862). Bracquemond would join the Société Anonyme in 1874. Degas also admired and praised the work of Marie Bracquemond, Félix's wife, who painted on tiles and had exhibited a mural composition on tiles at the 1878 Universal Exhibition [... T]hrough his friendship with Bracquemond, Degas was able on occasions to use the printing facilities of the atelier at Auteil, and both he and Pissarro experimented with painting on ceramics." (Roberta Crisci-Richardson: Mapping Degas: Real Spaces, Symbolic Spaces and Invented Spaces in the Life and Work of Edgar Degas, p. 276.) (14928)
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