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François Le Grix
Amitié Franco-italienne - Autograph Letter Signed by François Le Grix - 1936

1936

$401.23
£296.50
€340VAT Included
CA$556.77
A$566.87
CHF 326.47
MX$6,830.34
NOK 3,788.66
SEK 3,822.52
DKK 2,592.19

About the Item

Amitié Franco-italienne (Franco-Italian Friendship) is the main content of this Autograph Letter Signed by François Le Grix, to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Paris, January 15th 1936. In French. One page, single-sided. Excellent condition, including original envelope. Perfectly readable. This is a Thank-you letter written by the director of La Revue Hebdomadaire, Le Grix, accepting the Countess Pecci Blunt's lunch invitation, together with the brothers and writers Jerôme and Jean Tharaud, and demanding to extend the invitation to the Italian writers Alfieri and Grassi, and to other personalities useful to reniew the Franco-Italian friendship. La Revue Hebdomadaire was a French literary weekly review founded in 1892 by Fernand Laudet and published until 1939. In 1908, this review absorbed Le Monde moderne and femme today.After having been its secretary in the 1910s, then its editor in chief in November 1920, succeeding René Moulin, François Le Grix (1881-1966) became its director from October 1922 to 1939. Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt (Rome, 1885 - Marlia, 1971) Best-known as "Mimì" Pecci-Blunt , the Italian noblewoman was an art collector, patron and nephew of Pope Leo XIII. Extremely volcanic, she was very active in the cultural field, opening numerous lounges, galleries and theaters. In 1919 she married Cecil Blumenthal, later changed to Blunt, a wealthy Jewish banker from New York, heir to an important collection of nineteenth-century French painting. His Parisian and Roman salons was frequented by artists and intellectuals of the caliber of Salvador Dalì, Paul Valery, Poulenc, Paul Claudel, and Aldo Palazzeschi!
  • Creator:
    François Le Grix (1881 - 1966)
  • Creation Year:
    1936
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 8.86 in (22.5 cm)Width: 6.89 in (17.5 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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  • Condition:
    Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: M-1147811stDibs: LU65037496382

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