Edgar Degas / Signed Autograph Letter / Painting / Tissot / London / Nittis

Autograph letter signed "degas" to charles deschamps bets, Friday [1970s], 3 p. In-8 on mourning paper traces of period folds, tiny tears to folds. Degas prays the merchant charles deschamps to sell him one of his current paintings in order to fill his end of month. "My dear deschamps, I had to be in London for some time, as I said.

I'm not there because the painting of. [jean-baptist] Faure is not finished, that I would not want to go meet him there without giving him better news, and that I have little time to stroll if I want not to have it yet 1.

September nothing to deliver to him - he leaves from London on the 18th or I know it - perhaps at the end of the month, a little before, however, I will go to see you and the French colony. But nothing is less sure.

In the meantime you will receive the little painting that you had seen by train and that you had taken the idea of selling to m. Huth - can you do it! I've got around the end of the month a lot to pay for. Some money would come back to me, which I would be delighted to see - as for the price, it seems to me that 150 to 200 pounds is good - I would like to add two other things, a little vaporous - I am now working on it.

But it's very hot and I can't put it there any time it takes. Take care of me, my dear deschamps, I will be obliged to you - tell me also if the season is not well advanced. I fear him - hello to your kind wife first, in tissot and then nittis.

Degas had a sustained interest in the British market in the 1870s, when the sales of paintings proved more difficult to bet. The artist showed himself to be sensitive to the success that then met Tissot, from nittis or fantasies-latour to London. He is convinced, moreover, that the renewal of the realism he advocates would benefit from a better reception abroad. One thus discovers the intensity of the relational tissue that he was born in his return to and from the angleterre. Charles deschamps was the nephew and assistant of the art merchant Ernest Gambart.

Deschamps settled in London during the siege of betting in 1870. He became director of the Durand-Ruel branch in the English capital before joining his own account. He was the main contact of degas for all sales from the latter to the royame-uni. This item is in the category "collections\letters, old papers\autographs\others". The seller is "laurent-autographs" and is located in this country: fr.

theme: art
type: signed autograph letter
number of pages: 3