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Pierre-Olivier Dubaut, recipient: Jacques Lipchitz

Preprinted postcard from Pierre Dubaut to Jacques Lipchitz

17 October 1940

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Pierre-Olivier Dubaut 1886 – 1968
Recipient
Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
Date
17 October 1940
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Created by
Pierre-Olivier Dubaut 1886 – 1968
Recipient
Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
Title
Preprinted postcard from Pierre Dubaut to Jacques Lipchitz
Date
17 October 1940
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 897/1/1/142/41

Description

Postcards in France sent in 1940-41, contained pre-printed information. The special instructions for filling up this form state: 'After completing this card, strictly applied for the correspondence between the members of one family, cross the words that are not used. Don't write anything beyond the lines. ATTENTION. All the cards, where information is not only of the family manner, will not be delivered and probably will be destroyed'.
The fields on this pre-printed card are:
"...................................le...194...
...en bonne sante [in good health]...fatigue [tired].
......legerement, gravement malade, blesse [lightly, seriously ill, wounded]
...tue [killed].....prisonnier [prisoner].
....decede [died]....sans nouvelles [with no news].
de [of]....La famille [family]...va bien [is well].
...besoin de provisions [in need of food]....d'argent [money].
nouvelles, bagages [news, luggage]....est de retour a [is back in]
...travaille a [works in]....va entrer [going to enter]...
...a l'ecole de [the school/college of]....a ete recu [was received]
....aller a [to go to].....le..."

Using this pre-printed form, Dubaut manages to give only basic information. For example, here Dubaut informs that their common friend sculptor 'Destriere is [a prisoner]'

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  • Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
    • Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
      • Correspondence to and from Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1 (183)
        • Correspondence between Pierre Dubaut and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/142 (40)
          • Preprinted postcard from Pierre Dubaut to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/142/41
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