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- Marguerite Lhote
- Recipient
- Berthe Lipchitz
- Title
- Letter from Marguerite Lhote to Berthe Lipchitz
- Date
- 11 August 1919
- 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 897/1/3/14
Description
M.Lhote writes from Piquey. Full text in translation:
'Dear Friend,
As surprising as it is to receive a letter from Paradise, yet here is one!
The delights of this stay aren't enough to forget about our friends and we would really like some news from you. How is Lipchitz's throat? Is he finally allowed to pronounce some syllables?
I've been full of joy for the past 10 days as I float! I'm not daring to swim yet but that will come... and you will soon have proof of this... Andre, more inspired than ever, leaves the brush for the pen and vice versa. I?m contemplating him, caring but with my body on the sand, wearing only a small swimsuit and already roasting in the sun.
I'm not sure when we will be leaving but I will you let me know if Lipchitz still intends to come after us? Please do me the kindness to write to me a little bit? I have nothing more to say, impossible because here it is almost nirvana... Anymore happiness and I will be frozen in bliss incapable to hold a pen!
Talk to me as well about your circle of friends? I don't know what happened to Maria who I wrote to a few days after leaving Paris. Is she not replying because of sickness or laziness?
I'm leaving you to go fishing for oysters with the fisherwoman.
I kiss you both, Andre sends you a thousand and one friendly 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 Berthe Lipchitz (Kitrosser) TGA 897/1/3 (28)
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- Letter from Marguerite Lhote to Berthe Lipchitz TGA 897/1/3/14