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Morgan Russell
Autograph Letter Signed by Morgan Russell - 1935

1935

$424.06
£315.04
€360VAT Included
CA$594.28
A$601.72
CHF 342.32
MX$7,312.81
NOK 4,046.37
SEK 4,025.11
DKK 2,744.91

About the Item

This is a Autograph Letter Signed by Morgan Russell to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Rome, March 19th 1935. In French. Two pages, double-sided. Excellent condition, including original envelope. Perfectly readable. From his atelier in the street of American artists in Rome, from Via Margutta, the founder of the Synchromism, Morgan Russell, writes this letter to the Countess A.L. Pecci Blunt, expressing his gratitude and the great lucky to know the Patron of arts and the nephew of Pope Leo XIII : "ce sera pour moi une faveur inestimable de pouvoir fair la connaissance de un membre de l'illustre famille de Lion XIII". Morgan Russell (New York, 1886 – Philadelphia, 1953) The modern American artist, Morgan Russel, together with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, founded the Synchromism, a provocative abstract mouvement and style of painting (1912 -1920s). Russell's "synchromies," analogized color to music and were a American contribution to the rise of Modernism. A great traveller, Morgan Russel returned to Paris in 1909, where he studied at Matisse’s art school, attended Gertrude Stein's salon, and met Picasso and Rodin. It was in Paris that Russell met Stanton Macdonald-Wright, a fellow expatriate, in 1911, and soon after the two began developing theories about the primacy of color in the creation of a meaningful work of art. They were particularly interested in the theories of their teacher, Canadian painter Percyval Tudor-Hart: colors could be orchestrated in the same harmonious way that a composer arranges notes in a symphony. Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt (Rome, 1885 - Marlia, 1971) Best-known as "Mimì" Pecci-Blunt , the Italian noblewoman was an art collector, patron and nephew of Pope Leo XIII. Extremely volcanic, she was very active in the cultural field, opening numerous lounges, galleries and theaters. In 1919 she married Cecil Blumenthal, later changed to Blunt, a wealthy Jewish banker from New York, heir to an important collection of nineteenth-century French painting. His Parisian and Roman salons was frequented by artists and intellectuals of the caliber of Salvador Dalì, Paul Valery, Poulenc, Paul Claudel, and Aldo Palazzeschi!
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    1935
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 7.49 in (19 cm)Width: 5.71 in (14.5 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Roma, IT
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: M-1148441stDibs: LU65037499962

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