DLA020-0288 Transcription
Lausanne 26 – 4.[19]33.
My dear friend,
I received here your nice letter, and the charming response to Mr Brooks you’ve sent me[1] – –
You must have had a lovely time in Italy –
How I would have appreciated to be in Rome with you – ! And to study all ancient Rome. We must do that once – !
What I did was more prosaic – I went for 15 days at Crous s/ Seine near Montaux – charming place – splendid air – in a magnificent view. – and came down here after. I am going back to Paris in 2 days – and I do hope to see you there very soon.
Your picture – in connection with the great war will be so interesting[2] – splendid I feel sure – certainly I shall give you my sketch [110993] – and would love to come over to London[3] –
Armand de Gramont[4] has not been very well
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in Winter – but looked much better when I left for Switzerland –
I heard with great pleasure that your gd son was going to be married[5] and send you and to your dear wife[6] my best congratulations – – I wish my 2 boys would do the same!
Thank you for sending me the little Patino’s photo – It is a lovely picture [possibly 13322 or 6875] –
Looking forward to see [sic] you
believe me
your’s [sic] very affect.
M. de Mun
Editorial Note:
Comtesse Marguerite Marie de Mun, married name Madame Jacques Patrick Hennessy (1877–1970); for biographical notes, see [110993].
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04/05/2006
[1] Probably a reference to The Art of the Painter: The Response of Mr Philip de Laszlo to the Toast of “The Art of the Painter” Proposed by Friar Collin Brooks at the Christmas Dinner of the Whitefriars Club at the Trocadero Restaurant, London on 20 December 1932, printed for private circulation.
[2] De László had planned to paint a picture for his own pleasure on a subject in connection with the First World War. He wished to depict: “not men fighting, but the still nobler part of suffering women at home; women of all classes in a chapel surrounding the burning candles for the fallen souls” (Rutter, pp. 372-373). The painting was never started, although many studies and sketches remained in the artist’s studio on his death.
[3] De László had requested her study portrait [110993] for inclusion in his exhibition at Knoedler’s: Knoedler & Co., London, Portraits by Philip A. de László, M.V.O. June–July 1933, see DLA020-0289, letter from Comtesse Marguerite de Mun to de László, 15 May 1933. Due to insufficient gallery space, the study portrait [110993] was ultimately not included in the exhibition, see DLA020-0290, letter from de László to Comtesse Marguerite de Mun, 14 June 1933.
[4] Antoine XII-Armand, 12th duc de Gramont; styled duc de Guiche (1879–1962) [11801]
[5] On 1 June 1933, Paul Leonardo de Laszlo (1906–1983) [13214], third son of Philip and Lucy de László, married Josephine Vavasour McConnell (1906–1982) [10477].
[6] Mrs Philip de László, née Lucy Madeleine Guinness (1870–1950) [11474]