Lot n° 232
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HUYSMANS, Joris-Karl (1848-1907).
Set of 6 pieces: 5 L.A.S. and one C.A.S., addressed to the jurist and friend of naturalists Gabriel Thyébaut (1854-1922). [Paris], 1886. 10 pp. in-8 and in-12. Four envelopes preserved.
Huysmans evokes the pointillist painter Albert Dubois-Pillet, an exhibition on rue de Sèze "Mediocre Raffaëlli, ordinary and well-known Renoir, but amazing Dutch tulip fields by Claude Monet [...]".
About Arij Prins, first Dutch naturalist writer: "I have in Paris the good Prins, the friend of poor Caze. This extraordinary man who declares on arrival that L'Education sentimentale is the most beautiful book in the world, absolutely refuses to see Paris - despises the theater, vomits in advance on the Bois de Boulogne - has spent all his time with the Impressionists and, mad about Redon, has bought L'Empreinte. He ignores the boulevards, refuses to go there and now spends his time at Cluny and at my place. [He doesn't care about the top, I would like him to see the bottom [...] It's the same, this one can boast that he amazes me, as a foreigner. Apart from that, a silty horizon; above the head just open guano vats; behind, endless tinettes [...]".
He mentions d'Hennequin, Georges Landry, an obligatory and absurd dinner, Vanier, Morice, the death of Robert Caze: "It seems that the unfortunate Morice, the poet, is in a deplorable situation at the Seine, where he is an auxiliary. I do not have a vehement esteem for the problematic talent of this boy, but he likes art and is in addition in an awful misery". He asks Thyébaut to change his office. He adds "I leave this evening at Caze's who is rather badly wounded near the groin, following a duel. We still fear peritonitis. I am worried - and with that his sick wife! What madness! And what sadness. It will be said, my dear Gabriel, that we will exchange only lamento! Ah the dirt that life all the same and this ass of Stolff who prescribes optimism and banters on the back of Schopenhauer whom he calls (Arthur) in parenthesis, what spirit! Caze torments me, because he told me that his liver was affected [...]" "Caze died yesterday morning at 6 o'clock", etc.
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