Estimate: | £1,500 - £2,000 |
Hammer price: | £800 |
ARTISTS - A collection of c.50 letters by predominantly French artists, mainly France, 1878-95, and [n.d.], several addressed to the art dealers Allard and Noel or Messrs Tédesco frères, including Henri Fantin-Latour (9 July 1895, expressing pleasure at the sale of his painting "Les Baigneuses": "cette toile est de celles que je considère comme une de mes meilleures"), Camille Corot (ordering canvases), Gustave Moreau, Charles Stuart (two, from London), Félix Ziem, Ernest Meissonier, Alfred Guillou, Émile Lévy, and others. Provenance: Sotheby's, 17 & 18 November 1988, lot 211. (c.50)