[ICART (Louis)]. Set of letters and documents bound in a sma - Lot 48

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[ICART (Louis)]. Set of letters and documents bound in a sma - Lot 48
[ICART (Louis)]. Set of letters and documents bound in a small square in-4 volume, addressed to M. and Mme Alméras, including: - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed and dated February 25, 1948. The ailing artist talks about transporting a barrel of wine. "I'll write to you more cheerfully, I hope, by next week... When my fever and aches are finally drowned in pinard, which remains, whatever the docs say, the best of syrups!" - ICART (Louis). Élégantes observant Paris. Etching signed by the artist and accompanied by an autograph letter to Mme Alméras. - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed July 25, 1945. Interesting letter using Rabelaisian vocabulary. "Very illustrious perfumer...". - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed November 7, 1946, enriched with an original drawing by the artist of a reclining nude. "Your repentances smell good, my dear Amy, and you are truly an abstractor of quintessences (of Cyprus! Of roses! Of irises!, ...). My wife is delighted, fulfilled, and uses your perfumes so well that even her farts smell good!!!! I think of you often - and wish, from time to time, that you would give me some sign of life "in Rabelaisius" ..." - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed January 9, 1947, enriched with an original drawing featuring a humorous frieze of characters. Letter about "Trompette Coutor" (?) "[...] The style is very lively, very comical, and it's very much in the same vein from which Rabelais drew! My wife and I laughed so hard we actually peed on the ceiling! [...] " - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed May 16, 1947. "[...] It's all -oh! -ah! -hum! -hi! of happy surprise that my wife removed the beautiful bottles from their packaging... The soap... How kind of you! We'll have to sort it all out when we get back, with endless drinking! [...] " - Photograph of an X-ray session at the 1st class spa in Vichy, with Louis Icart's autograph: "Si Rabelais voyait ça ... ! - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed July 28, 1948. "[...] my wife, every morning, lotions herself with "Luzy" - and I can't say my pagan mass - without drinking a glass of your little white wine... so sweet, so flowing, so mignottant [...]". - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed January 14, 1948. "[...] Then our first order of business will be to decorate our Calvaire tower, light up the surrounding area, force in ovens and grills, chamber "fillettes" and magnums, to welcome you at last, as we've been dreaming of doing... In total intimacy too: the four of us! Then, between two glassfuls of wine, and after the invocations to Pantagruel, we'll make the solemn appointment for rue Vico [...]". - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed April 21, 1948, enriched with an original drawing of a nude woman filling bottles by the keg. "Dear friend, that's it! The wine is drawn! Now it's time to drink it! [...] " - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed, December 12, 1948. "[...] I'm having my kitchen redone ("American style" - naturally!) and I hope to show it off to you and Madame Alméras - as soon as it's up and running! [...] I would have liked to do something in New York for your factory... but I didn't stay long enough to reach the people who might have been interested... Although, as I wrote to you, most American businessmen, frightened by France's Communist policy, no longer want to invest capital in our country's business [...]". - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed December 27, 1949. "[...] To make these wishes come true, I beg you to accept this new edition of "Les amours de Psyché" - which has just been published at Christmas - which I hope you will enjoy. And, in the hope of being able to meet soon and "empty the piot" in the spirit of Rabelais [...]". - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed concerning the Coutor manuscript. - ICART (Fanny). Autograph poem addressed to Alméras friends. - ICART (Fanny). Autograph letter signed. - Announcement of Louis Icart's death. - ICART (Fanny and Louis). Signed postcard addressed to Alméras. - ICART (Louis). Autograph letter signed addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Alméras "[...] nothing should distract you from the Saint-office des Vendanges [...]". - ICART (Fanny). Autograph letter to the Alméras after the death of Louis Icart. - ICART (Fanny and Louis). Autograph letter signed, addressed to Mr. Alméras: "Thank you again for your visit, for the sumptuous package (worthy of rivaling the incense boxes [...]".
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