Waldemar George Correspondence: 18 autograph signed letters addressed

  

Of Polish origin, active in Paris, naturalized French in 1914, a defender of the school. Correspondence consisting of 18 autograph letters signed. Addressed to the art critic. 31 pages, in-4 and in-8 format, including 2 postcards and 1 visiting card.

“Art can only regain the place that belongs to it on the condition that it develops. Within the framework of an orderly and balanced society, like a true work of art.” The letters take us back into the artistic news of the period and testify to the good understanding between the two art critics. Among the topics mentioned are an article signed Lassaigne on an exhibition about the Golden Age of Italian art at the Petit-Palais: “you have identified the active and dramatic character of Italian art,” Lassaigne’s reply against “the rehabilitation of a dated art or one that has fallen into disuse,” financial assistance to a writer, the admission of an art critic to the press union, a message to Chagall: “Tell Chagall all my tenderness and all my admiration,” an incident at the Paul Guillaume Prize (of which Waldemar-George was secretary general), Lassaigne’s resignation from the journal Les Élites françaises, Waldemar-George’s book L’Art d’Occident en péril, Lassaigne’s visit to the exhibition of Polish Jewish artists, and a forthcoming visit to Francis Gruber’s studio.