Lot n° 117
                        
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                            DE BOM, Emmanuel (1868-1953), writer, journalist and librari - Lot 117
                        
                        DE BOM, Emmanuel (1868-1953), writer, journalist and librarian. Two letters addressed to Georges MARLIER (1898-1968), art critic who defends an art integrated in a strong state and after the capitulation participates in the "Nouveau Journal". - In the first letter, dated 30 November 1942 from Kalmshout (1 p. 4° ½ ). De Bom thanks Marlier for suggesting that he meet Mr. Étienne Vauthier, a former student of Henri de Braekeleer. De Bom will be very happy to meet Marlier during his lecture on "The painter of the polderians", Marten Melsen (1870-1947) "whom you hold in high esteem as I do. Perhaps this one (incognito!) will also attend... Excellent opportunity for you to take an interview with him!.... (Unless he runs away). "De Bom suggests organizing a retrospective of the work. He greets Madame Marlier (Alice Frey). (Two remarks: eminent art critics such as Camille Lemonnier, Edmond Picard, Octave Maus, Paul Colin and Pol de Mont have praised his work, and De Bom wrote a monograph on Melsen, Emmanuel De Bom, 'Marten Melsen, oolijk schilder der boeren uit het polderland', Uitg. H. Melsen, Brussels, 1942). - In the second letter, dated 23 May 1943 from Kalmshout (3 p. 4° and qqs lines). De Bom has unexpectedly re-read his monograph on "Henri de Braekeleer in Antwerp". He proposes to Marlier to be his "drogman in French" (Drogman is the term used in the East to designate an interpreter). He recalls that it is an idea in the air of the time, that "Paul Haesaerts has just asked him for some information for the publication in French of an article of his, whose (bad) translation into Dutch appeared in Holland". Set of 2 letters.
                        
                        
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