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Henri CARTIER-BRESSONHyères
[1932].
1 black silver print (36 x 25 cm), signed in ink in the lower right margin. Modern print [circa 1990]. Framed.
Precious photograph, signed by Cartier-Bresson in the margin.
An iconic image from the french Master photographer.
"Hyères" was taken at the very beginning of Cartier-Bresson's photographic career, after his return from a trip to Africa in 1931. He stood at the top of a staircase on rue Edith-Warton, triggering his 50mm Leica, purchased a few days earlier in Marseille, at the fleeting passage of a cyclist.
Around 1931," said Cartier-Bresson, "I saw a photograph by Martin Munkàcsi [...] three black children running in the waves. I must say that it was this photo that set the world on fire. There is in this picture such an intensity, such a spontaneity, such a joy of living". He then abandoned his initial training - painting and literature - and devoted himself to photography. At the beginning of 1932, he was in Hyères - where he took this photo.
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Hyeres, Mauvanne, France, circa 1935, paper-framed, "Marie-Louise".
13 x 20.5 cm ; on blue headed paper and vignette of the Domaine de Mauvanne, Salins d'Hyères.
With a black ballpoint pen, Charlot drew his hat, cane and shoes and signed " Charlie Chaplin ". He was then Simone Berriau's host; it was for her that the drawing was made, during a stay of Chaplin in the south of France, near Hyères, where Simone Berriau offered herself "a vineyard": the magnificent Domaine de Mauvanne. Max Ophüls will be filming Divine there, and Charlie Chaplin will be staying for several weeks, taking advantage of the small beach that Simone rents near her estate, at the Vieux Salins d'Hyères.
After the Second World War - Mauvanne, the scene of a bloody battle, was occupied and pillaged by the Germans. Nothing of the collection of the library or archives was saved, and Simone Beriau, who ran a theater in Paris (she was the director of the… Read More

Romain Gary and Jean Seberg's copy, extensively annotated by the author. First edition and first printing.Inscribed : "For Jean, my only movie-star - whose humanness celluloid were at a loss to render unreal and for Romain, a fellow singer, and spirit - love, GregoryP.S. This be the only copy in which I have made personal corrections - surely when you see the completions of a film you've made you wish Jean could have done some scenes differently - so the same for poems and the poet - I feel this book to be my finest work - mine "Breathley" & "Roots of Heaven"- In spirit I always hold you & Romain fondly & well - Romain helped me when I was in dire need once - you both did."This mailing is accompanied by a long note written after the last poem in the collection "Writ on the eve of my 32nd birthday":"a poem like this shouldn't be too long, or talk too much, I feel - yet I hate to omit anything so truly heartfelt - but it makes no difference - to end it - the world owes me - a million dollars is happy.… Read More

Paris, Claude Chapplet, 1611
1 vol. (105 x 145 mm) of 1 f., [4], 189, [3] pp. and 1 f. Brown calf entirely strewn with fleurs-de-lys, three old-style gilt fillets framing the covers, gilt coat of arms in the center, gilt fillet running along the edges, all edges gilt with the great coat of arms of Louis XIII, King of France & Navarre: crowned coupled shields, accompanied by the crowned royal cipher "L", and surrounded by the collars of the king's orders. Full tan morocco box.
Double royal provenance :
A copy bearing the royal coat of arms [Louis XIII], and and an exceptional handwritten dedication by the author, Pierre Coton, to Anne of Austria, Queen of France.
It also bears the handwritten bookplate of Henriette de France (1609-1669), daughter of Henri IV and heiress to Queen Anne.
It is dedicated by its author, Father Pierre Coton: a Jesuit, he had been Henri IV's preacher and confessor and the Dauphin's preceptor, before also becoming his confessor; for nearly fifteen years, he remained one of… Read More