Henryk BERLEWI(1894-1967, Polish painter and draughtsman) / - Lot 206

Henryk BERLEWI(1894-1967, Polish painter and draughtsman) / Autograph letter signed, 2 p in-4,Paris, October 12, 1953, to art critic Anatole Jakovsky [1907-1983, specialist in Naïve Art]: He would like to show him some paintings by an 80-year-old woman, and he and his friendChil Aronson(Yiddish-speaking art critic) are convinced that they will interest him, "you are the only man competent in the matter"; On the other hand, he is finishing his book on the Object, which includes a chapter on Naïve Painting: "Given that my thesis on the Reintegration of the Object is based on extensive documentation, I wouldn't want to omit your contribution as an exegete of Naïve Art", so he asks for his book in order to extract some quotations from it; He hopes to have the great pleasure of seeing his correspondent soon, and on this occasion will present him with a lithograph he has just made.