ANDRÉ GIDE (1869 1951) Brief Autograph Letter Signed to Mada

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ANDRÉ GIDE (1869-1951)

Brief Autograph Letter Signed, to "Madame," in French:
"The savage that I am hardly recognises himself.... but nonetheless I accept with impatient pleasure." ½ page, 8vo; closed tear at left edge, folds, faint scattered foxing.

Np, 4 February [1933?]

Provenance: acquired in January 1974 from ROSSIGNOL (4, rue de l'Odéon, Paris - 60) from the a portfolio containing two post cards from André Gide to Mme Sert, private collection, California.

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André Gide describes himself as a savage, Dated February 4, 1933, the note in likely linked to exchanges at the time of the creation of Igor Stravinsky's musical score ‘Persephoné' – this same month Gide would go with Ira Rubinstein to meet Stravinsky in Wiesbaden. It was in the Parisian salon of Mme Misha Sert that Gide and Stravinsky first met in 1910.