[UNPUBLISHED LETTER]. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY SONIA DELAU - Lot 245

[UNPUBLISHED LETTER]. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY SONIA DELAUNAY TO MILITZA PETRASCU. Bucharest, 1927. 2 pages, in-4. Letter written by Sonia Delaunay on her letterhead to her Romanian friend Militza Patrascu (Petrasco), a student of Brancusi. I gave your jewelry to Fouquet, the modern jeweler, to have it set... I gave your name to Mallet-Stevens, who will likely write to you himself and ask you for photos of your works to reproduce in his book on sculpture... Reproduced in: - LETTERS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE. MODERN GRAPHIC DESIGN, p. 81 (another copy) Enclosed is a photograph of a sculpture depicting Robert Delaunay created by Militza PETRASCU in 1926, a pencil sketch by Mr. Petrascu depicting a woman’s head, and some notes regarding Robert Delaunay. Reproduced in: - BRANCUSI, TZARA und die RUMÄNISCHE AVANTGARDE, p. 2§ - MILITA PETRASCU, p. 125 Militza Petrascu (1892–1976), a student of Brancusi until 1923, returned to Bucharest and became a collaborator with Vinea and Janco’s Contimporanul group, then exhibited in Paris, in 1927 at the Briant Robert Gallery, alongside G. Valmier. Zervos wrote in *Cahiers d’Art* no. 4–5/1927: “A former student of Brancusi, Ms. Petrascu is undoubtedly the most richly gifted female sculptor of the present day. Compared to other women, she is superior to them in every respect.

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