Sent to ‚7 The Mall, Park Hill Rd, London‘.
OM Postcard from Hotel de Flots-Bleus, St Jean-de-Luz
Artist page for Les éditions d’art Yvon
Postcard from Hotel de Flots-Bleus, St Jean-de-Luz
‘Family correspondence including Ben Nicholson‘, collection owner: Ben Nicholson OM, 1903–81 – part of the digitised collection of the Tate Archive
objects Postcard from Hotel de Flots-Bleus, St Jean-de-Luz
Available to view online are a selection of items from the personal papers of Ben Nicholson including writings, correspondence and photographs. The manuscripts that have been selected have been written by Nicholson over a large time frame, spanning from the mid 1930s to the early 1980s and cover Nicholson’s thoughts on his own art and other artists. The digitised correspondence is between Nicholson and his father, William Nicholson. Furthermore there is a selection of photographs of Ben Nicholson with his friends and family together they provide an insight into his relationship with his father and with his family. Also available …
objects Postcard from Hotel de Flots-Bleus, St Jean-de-Luz
Full text in translation: ‚My Dear Friend, The events are following one another at an accelerated pace. Paris is threatened, maybe already taken as you are not responding to me! We didn’t believe in a disaster of this magnitude; I’ve always feared it would happen knowing the military powers of the Germans and their domination at all costs. But wasn’t it seen, in certain environments, as being a Hitlerite to voice these fears out loud when to the contrary it was showing some clarity? We are appalled here. Some repatriated from Paris and the areas around are coming in to …
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