May 05, 2016 - Sale 2413

Sale 2413 - Lot 233

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CHAMINADE, CÉCILE. Group of 5 items, each Signed "C. Chaminade": Two Autograph Musical Quotations, each on a hand-drawn stave * Three Autograph Letters. The first quotation, three bars from her "Madrigal," with holograph lyrics and date, on a leaf likely removed form an autograph album. 7x5 inches. The second quotation, two bars from her "Ritournelle," with holograph lyrics, on a small card. 2 1/2x4 inches. Np, 30 November 1895; [1906?]. The letters, to various recipients, in French, concerning a piano sale, dinner engagement, and an audition of her vocal songs. Together 5 pages, 4to or oblong 16mo. Np, nd; Paris, nd; 28 July [1925] Np, vd
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[1925]: ". . . I am going to sell . . . a marvelous Erard piano, top of the line, with ebony art and bronzes signed by artists of the first order. Towards the 15th or 20th of October this sale will go well with other art objects . . . . [H]ave you among your rich friends and lovers of fine things some people who will find themselves in Paris at that time . . . ?"
with--Letter from Chaminade to an unnamed recipient ("Sir"), in an unknown hand with secretarial signature, requesting to join a musical association [Société Nationale de Musique]. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo. Np, "Friday" [1879].