WERFEL FRANZ Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed recipient

Sale 2470 - Lot 241

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WERFEL, FRANZ. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient ("Very esteemed Doctor"), in German, thanking him for sending a drawing. 1/2 page, 4to; faint scattered offsetting, folds. Np, nd

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"I thank you belatedly for the excellent drawing of K. I have been traveling for months. You have captured K's face at a time when the hunger for war had not yet destroyed it, illuminated by a childish nobility."
The recipient is likely Erwin Otto Krausz (1887-1968), Austrian psychoanalyst, who was also a talented writer of prose and poetry, and an inspired sculptor and painter.