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In Failing Health, Edgar Degas Takes the Cure at Dordogne’s Mont-Dore
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In Failing Health, Edgar Degas Takes the Cure at Dordogne’s Mont-Dore

by DEGAS, EDGAR

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DEGAS, EDGAR. (1834-1917). French artist and one of the founders of Impressionism. ALS. ("Degas"). 1p. 12mo. (Paris), July 26, 1897. To Monsieur Baudin [possibly French porcelain maker, labor activist and member of the Chamber of Deputies EUGÈNE BAUDIN (1853-1918)]. In French with translation.

"If you are still at Mont Dore the 3rd or the 4th, we are going to see one another. I am going there for a cure. I am writing to you in Paris hoping it will be forwarded to you, and at the same time I am writing to Mont Dore assuming that the mailman will find you…"

Degas began to study painting early – first at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and then in Italy. He exhibited his realistic works at the Salon, but by the 1870s he had become disillusioned with that staid institution. At that time, he took a leading role among his colleagues Renoir, Monet, Sisley, and Pissarro to launch their own exhibit in 1874. Famously, Monet's Impression: Sunrise was on view,
earning its members the appellation "Impressionists,"… Read More
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Isadora Duncan Autograph Letter Mourning the Death of her Two Children:  “I am here in a villa...
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Isadora Duncan Autograph Letter Mourning the Death of her Two Children: “I am here in a villa by the sea dying of despair”

by DUNCAN, ISADORA

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DUNCAN, ISADORA.
(1878-1927). American dancer who introduced the art of interpretive dance. ALS. ("Isadora"). 2pp. 4to. Viareggio, (Circa November/December, 1913). On her monogrammed Neuilly stationery the address of which she has crossed out and replaced with, "Villa Rigatti, Viareggio, Italy."
"I am here in a villa by the sea dying of despair – Eleanora Duse was here very ill but she has left – I am all alone & I have hardly left the courage to move. I feel I am at the end of all & my efforts were in vain. I struggled but the thing has killed me after all – Paris is in place [des] Vosges. Do you see him? Write me your plans. I have no force even to write – …"
A visionary of modern dance, Duncan left the United States at 21 to pursue a career in Europe where her popular performances in Berlin, Budapest, Munich, Vienna, and other European cities, led to friendships with many notable contemporaries. Duncan's success enabled her to open dance schools in France, Germany, Russia, and the United… Read More
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