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Berthe Lipchitz, recipient: Jacques Lipchitz

Letter from Berthe to Jacques Lipchitz

[1932–3]

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Berthe Lipchitz
Recipient
Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
Date
[1932–3]
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Berthe Lipchitz
Recipient
Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
Title
Letter from Berthe to Jacques Lipchitz
Date
[1932–3]
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 897/1/1/254/17

Description

Letter is dated 'lundi' [Monday] only. Berthe speaks of some Paris news to Lipchitz who is staying somewhere else, most probably, in Le Pradet (1933). In particular she describes the visit of a writer 'Kazan'. Most likely it is the famous Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957)who lived in Paris intermittently from 1925 until his death and was back from Spain in 1932. She is comparing 'Kazan' with 'Prevalaki', who is most probably, Pandelis Prevalakis, a friend and editor of Kazantzakis. 'Kazan', according to Berthe, is writing about Dante, because he thinks that literature ended with Valery and Claudel. He is also admiring Picasso's exhibition, 'as if there is nothing more in Paris'.
[Note: In 1934 Nikos Kazantzakis translated Dante's 'Divine Comedy'].

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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 from Berthe to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/254 (2)
          • Letter from Berthe to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/254/17
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