LAURENCIN MARIE Autograph Letter Signed to newspaper columni

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"IT WAS GEORGES BRAQUE WHO . . . SAID TO ME 'LAURENCIN, YOU HAVE TALENT'" LAURENCIN, MARIE. Autograph Letter Signed, to newspaper columnist Leonard Lyons, in French, giving a brief autobiography. 2 pages, 4to, written on separate sheets; folds. With the original envelope. Paris, 25 October 1948

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". . . I studied at the Lycée Lamartine and later I learned about the greatest poets, the greatest musicians, and my friends. . . . Rousseau made my portrait with Guillaume Apollinaire. I attended many discussions between Picasso, Guillaume Apolllinaire, Max Jacob, and . . . many conversations between Guillaume Apollinaire and Matisse.
". . . [I]t was Georges Braque who made the discovery in a corner of the Academy where we worked together a small painting made with three colors and said to me, 'Laurencin, you have Talent' and in 1913 Paul Rosenberg came to me and made me a contract that has never been broken. . . ."