Author: (SANDBERG). LIPCHITZ, Jacques
Title: Handwritten letter signed 'Jacques' to 'Chère Jeo', dated 'Le 3 mai 1958'.
Description: Elegantly written in French with ink on thin paper, recto only. 28 x 21 cm. 28 lines. Folded, two little holes (wear or paper fault), but in very good condition. Lipchitz (1891-1973) writes to an otherwise unknown woman 'Jeo', possibly 'Geo', whom he had wanted to write for a long time, but he is ashamed to confess he doesn't know her last name. He profits from the amiable proposition of 'notre bon ami, le Dr. Sandberg, qui vous transmettra ce message'. (Transl:) 'You guess my unrest: since a long time Ruda sends me letters, that seem completely incoherent to me. What has happened with him?' 'Humbly I want to ask you for advice. What can I do to make him a bit more happy?'. He also asks her personal address, and ends 'Croyez moi bien fraternellement votre Jacques', followed by his own address in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. 'Ruda' is the pet name of Lipchitz' youngest brother and heir Rubin Lipchitz (1908-1993), who lived in France. The brothers had last seen each other in 1946. Possibly, 'Geo' or 'Jeo' is Rubin's girlfriend. A little note by Sandberg to Jacques Lipchitz in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, dated September 23, 1958, gives a hint about this letter: Sandberg never had the chance to deliver the letter, because he never met the woman alone... imagine the predicament of world famous museum curator, Jonkheer Willem Sandberg on pins and needles for delivering an intimate letter to someone else's girlfriend. But probably the matter was solved in another way, which explains the presence of the letter among others adressed to Sandberg, not in a Lipchitz archive.

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