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- Andrei Shimkevich
- Recipient
- Berthe Lipchitz
- Title
- Letter from Andrei Shimkevich to Berthe Lipchitz
- Date
- 12 October 1934
- 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 897/1/3/26/5
Description
Andrei writes from Koktebel in Crimea. He informs that has to leave earlier because of his illness (probably, malaria which is mentioned in the letters from his father Mikhail). He is unhappy that Berthe has not sent him 200 francs which means he will have to return 'to my place' - probably, to Bolshevo labour commune (half prison, half labour commune for young criminals). He asks Berthe to come, saying that in November he will be able to take more annual leave, that they can live all together at his father's flat. He passes a greeting to Jacques Lipchitz from Valentin Parnakh, who knows him personally, as well as Marc Chagall. Andrei signs as 'Andre Loustic [means 'joker']', his nick name.
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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- Correspondence between Andrei Shimkevich and Berthe and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/3/26 (11)
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- Letter from Andrei Shimkevich to Berthe Lipchitz TGA 897/1/3/26/5