KOKOSCHKA
(Oskar, 1886-1980, Austrian-born British Artist, Poet & Playwright)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed with Initials to Gaby GOLDSCHEIDER
in London, daughter of his old friend and collaborator Ludwig GOLDSCHEIDER (1896-1973, Austrian-born Art Historian & Poet, who founded the Phaidon Press in Vienna in 1923 and then in England in 1938), in German with transcription and translation, saying he knows "that your dear father is no longer alive. I wrote you a letter a little while ago. I am very sorry that, again, one of my few true friends is gone ... By good fortune you always got on well with him and he needed that very much because he too had no one else in a world that was ever more foreign to him ... I would dearly like to see you once more", he continues "Your wood engravings are not supposed to go through the post" but have to be hand-carried, "I have to take these to the 'Customs Office', God knows where it is situated in Lausanne ... signing for everything takes such a time, doesn't it?", asking "... Do you make a living? Are you going to get married one day?", and ending "it is too late for Happy Easter", so "best wishes for Whitsun and come once more and see your O.K.", with a beautiful reproduction of a scene in colours by the artist, showing park land sloping down to a river, people promenading and couples dancing under the trees, watched by a mounted rider in the bottom left corner, at the head Kokoschka has pasted a strip of paper, with, in pencil in English, "for Gaby at Easter-time from OK", 5½" x 8¼", and with the original autograph envelope, the letter 2 sides 8vo, Villeneuve, Vaud, Switzerland, 24th April
(Transcription)
O. Kokoschka
24.4.74
1844 Villeneuve (Suisse)
Tél. (021) 60 13 12
Meine liebe Gaby
Ich weiß daß dein lieber Vater nicht mehr lebt: Ich schrieb dir einen Brief vor einiger Zeit. Mir ist sehr leid, wieder einer meinen wenigen wahren Freunde gegangen. Man wird immer einsamer. Du hast dich, zum Glück, immer gut mit ihm verstanden und das hat er sehr gebraucht weil er auch niemanden mehr sonst hatte in einer auch für ihm immer fremder Welt.
Wie geht es dir jetzt? Kommst du nicht einmal in unsere Nähe? Ich möchte dich sehr gern einmal wiedersehen.
Deine xylographien sollten nicht durch die Post sondern entweder durch dich oder einen Bekannten [Side 2] gebracht werden.
Ich müsste diese zum "Zollamt", weiß Gott wo in Lausanne sta<n>tionierten Zollamt bringen müssen. Durch die Post wären schwierigkeiten, man ist hier pedantisch, die unterschriften haben ja Zeit, nicht wahr?
Was machst du denn überhaupt? Hast du zu leben? Wirst du auch einmal unter die Haube kommen? Viele Fragen, Probleme. Verspätet noch herzliche Oster - nun vielmehr Pfingsten wünsche und zeig dich einmal deinem
OK
(Translation)
O. Kokoschka
24th April 1974
1844 Villeneuve (Switzerland)
Tel. (021) 60 13 12
My dear Gaby,
I know that your dear father is no longer alive. I wrote you a letter a little while ago. I am very sorry that, again, one of my few true friends is gone. One becomes more and more alone. By good fortune you always got on well with him and he needed that very much because he too had no one else in a world that was ever more foreign to him.
How are you now? Won't you be coming this way again? I would dearly like to see you once more.
Your wood engravings are not supposed to go through the post but either brought yourself or by someone known to you. I have to take these to the 'Customs Office', God knows where it is situated in Lausanne. It would be difficult through the post, they are so pedantic here, signing for something takes such a time, doesn't it?
What do you do chiefly? Do you make a living? Are you going to get married one day? So many questions, problems.
It is too late for 'Happy Easter', so now instead, best wishes for Whitsun and come once more and see your
OK
Item Date:
1974
Stock No:
56575
£1750
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LANDSEER
(Thomas, 1795-1880, Engraver, son of John)
Signature,
laid down
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
14238
£12
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LANDSEER
(Sir Edwin Henry, 1802-1873, Animal Painter)
Early autograph letter signed with his florid monogram 'EL',
in his equally florid hand, here somewhat shaky, saying "Come as soon as you possibly possibly can, as I am very unwell - not heard from W Caitlin Pray come Yours EL", Dinmont Street, (off Hackney Road, near Cambridge Heath), 1 side 4½" x 3½" red-edged and conjugate blank, 1817 altered by Landseer to
faint traces of gum in corners of blank fourth side
Item Date:
1818
Stock No:
53506
£75
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LANDSEER
(Thomas, 1794-1880, Artist best known for his engravings and etchings particularly those of his younger brother Edwin Landseer)
Fine Autograph Letter to an unnamed correspondent
begging pardon “for apparent indifference to your most kind letter, I have been waiting for the completion of a plate (by my Brother) which I wished to send you with the Highland subject - my Brother has not been able to finish in the time allowed so we must have a little patience. Pray accept my thanks for your very kind intentions for my Billiard [?] amusement which I shall gladly... Those you gave me years back are charming if you remember their proportions - touching his R.H.P. Albert - I dare not approach the Court till I have done my large picture for the Queen - perhaps you had better address Sir C. Phipps on the subject you mentioned in you last. My Royal Picture was begun some years ago...”, 4 sides 8vo., St John’s Wood Road, headed paper with his monogram of red antlers, 15th May
Item Date:
1861
Stock No:
43260
£175
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LANDSEER
(Sir Edwin Henry, 1802-1873, Animal Painter)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed “E. Landseer” to Dear Bicknell
(Henry, 1818-1880, Patron of the Arts and Businessman, David Robert’s son-in-law) accepting “your friendly invitation and will immediately communicate with my brother touching the Picture. I thought, as the Engraving was out you could surely have the Picture. Thanks for your suggestion as to Roberts and his carriage. No one more fully appreciates D. R. than I, but when I tell you he is so fearfully severe about 5 minutes - I dare not again venture on the chance of his displeasure - last year he was awfully morbid - when I appeared at the Club 5 minutes late, he simply said I have written you a note, as I do not wish to appear disrespectful towards our (lamented) friend... under the circumstances I do not like to disturb his exactness...”, 4 sides 8vo., no place
Item Date:
1862
Stock No:
43483
£175
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