[TARDIEU] - Lot 61

Lot n° 61
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[TARDIEU] - Lot 61
[TARDIEU] A very interesting and rare collection of family correspondence between Victor Jean and Caline Tardieu, comprising a set of letters and two envelopes: 1924–1929. - A letter in a stamped envelope from Jean Tardieu, dated 1924, addressed to his father Victor Tardieu on Reinach Street in Hanoi. - A 16-page letter in a stamped envelope from Caline, dated September 30, 1926, addressed to her husband in Hanoi. - An 8-page letter from Victor Tardieu, dated April 24, 1929, addressed to his son Jean. - Two letters from Victor Tardieu, one dated November 5, 1929, and the second from 1929, addressed to his wife Caline. - A letter from Caline, dated April 29 (?), addressed to her husband. "Nothing is well-structured unless it is grounded in classical traditions" In a letter addressed to his son—whose literary trials and promising beginnings he follows with palpable emotion—Victor Tardieu also shares his artistic reflections. We can see his deep conviction that artistic creation must be rooted in tradition and the great importance he attaches to the study of the classics—a cornerstone of the entire curriculum at the Indochinese School of Fine Arts, which he founded in 1925. Above all, in a manner entirely unprecedented in the history of art, he discusses his thoughts on the creation of the great fresco at the University. This letter is therefore a crucial testimony to what the Italian masters called *Il Disegno*. It also reveals Tardieu’s literary passions, including a few lines on his discovery of the third volume of Marcel Proust’s magnum opus, *In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower*, published in 1918.
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