(H/B) A CENTURY OF ARTISTS' LETTERS

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This personal and engaging book reproduces over 50 letters from many of the most famous 19th and 20th century painters in Paris between 1855 and 1968. With each letter is an exact transcription (all but two of the letters were written in French) and then a translation in English. The text of the book explores each writers' relationships with the recipients and with other artists they mention and a precise examination of each artists's place in the history of art.
The artists write of their anxieties about work, health, finances, and their future plans. For example, Pierre Bonnard, at eighteen, writes a long letter to his father explaining why he has transferred from art school to law school. An anguished Emile Bernard describes to art critic Albert Aurier the night Vincent van Gogh cut off his own ear.
Also featured are a work of art by each artist and portrait, self-portrait, or photograph. Additionally, the handwriting in each letter has been briefly analyzed by a graphologist, providing another insight to the human side of great talent.
The letters have been selected from the collection of Pierre F. Simon, which is now in the archives of the New York Public Library. (From the publisher)

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Introduction
Letters from:
Eugene Delacroix in 1855 and 1885
Eugene Boudin before 1865
Edouard Manet in 1876
Pierre Bonnard in 1885 and 1920
Berthe Morisot in 1887
Camille Pissarro in 1887 and 1901
Claude Monet in 1888 and 1923
Alfred Sisley in 1888 and 1888
Odilon Redon in 1889 and 1915
Emile Bernard in 1889
Paul Signac in 1891 and c. 1893
Mary Cassatt, undated
Henri-Edmond Cross in 1893
Pierre-Auguste Renoir c. 1870s and 1894
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec c. 1895
Paul Gauguin in 1901
Henri Rousseau in 1906
Paul Cezanne in 1906
Amadeo Modigliani in 1907
Auguste Rodin in 1910
Pablo Picasso in 1917
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle in 1917
Albert Marquet in 1920
Paul Klee in 1921
Andre Derain in 1921
Juan Gris in 1918 and 1922
Othon Friesz in 1924
Francis Picabia in 1928
Henri Lebasque, undated
Georges Rouault, undated
Chaim Soutine in 1936
Marc Chagall in 1933 and undated
Joan Miro in 1934
Marie Laurencin in 1936 and 1938
Raoul Dufy in 1937 and 1949
Henri Matisse in 1946
Georges Braque in 1946
Max Ernst in 1949
Fernand Leger in 1918 and 1955
Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac in 1968
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