?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
INVITING A PAINTER TO VISIT: "I TELL YOU FROM MY HEART, COME!" RILKE, RAINER MARIA. Autograph Letter Signed, to painter Oskar Zwintscher ("My dear Mr Zwintscher"), in German, inviting him to spend the winter at the vacant house of a neighbor, with small ink drawing. The letter, renewing an earlier invitation to visit, offering a small furnished house and nearby artist's studio. The drawing, a diagram showing the floor plan of the house and adjacent street names, at lower edge of second page, 3x4 inches. 4 pages, 8vo, written on a folded sheet; short closed separations at folds, ink note at upper right of first page in unknown hand ("No 3"). Worpswede, 15 January 1902
"In a small house . . . three rooms, well appointed by Heinrich Vogeler, are continuously at your and your wife's disposal if you . . . still think about coming here. . . . "Upstairs is a large room that was once an artist's studio . . . . I will try to draw it as well as I can. Thus: [drawing] ". . . [I]f the dining room appears too dark for you to use as a studio . . . . [y]ou would then have to use a studio outside the house, about 10 minutes away, in Worpswede, which we would provide to you at no cost, just like the house. ". . . I can hardly tell you how happy all of us would be if you both would move into this little house and be our neighbors for a while. Worpswede is so grey and deserted now with its snowed-over loneliness; its wintry deep silence would certainly be good for you. ". . . I tell you from my heart, come! . . ."
