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- Jean Bucher
- Recipient
- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Title
- Letter from Jeanne Bucher to Jacques Lipchitz
- Date
- 27 February 1928
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
- Reference
- TGA 897/1/1/69/12
Description
Jeanne writes that Berthe Lipchitz came to see her the previous day 'and told me about your terrible bad accounts - which may be over now. I have often wanted to write to you, Jacques, I am doing it now.
28 [February 1928]. I have just received your card, such happiness! I think that past evils are quickly forgotten, I can already imagine this dear modest statue in the splendour of the South, you will tell me the legend. I finish my Mondrian-Eckman exhibition which made me undergo various assaults, for example on the fact that I was misleading the public in error by displaying such tendency, and yet more vain things...'
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
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- Correspondence to and from Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1 (183)
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- Correspondence between Jeanne Bucher and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/69 (30)
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- Letter from Jeanne Bucher to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/69/12