DLA018-0045 Transcription

10th of October [1931].

Dear Mr de Lászlo,

Thank you ever so much for your kind letter, following your advice I shall have the portrait [110776] put under glass but not varnished at present.^[1] I let the [illegible] know your valuable advice about the copies but I am not sure that they did not choose an artist yet.

I do hope Mme de Lászlo and you are going to

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have a good time in America, it is just as good to get [rid?] of old Europe for some time.

Now I want to ask you about the Honorarium which I hope that according to the circumstances, will not be as much as of my portrait [111439].^[2] Please let me know so that I can settle about it.

With my very best wishes for a good journey and a happy time in America to Mme de Laszlo and you

Yours very sincerely

Anny Aczél

Editorial Note:

Madame Edward Aczél, née Anny [maiden unknown]; for biographical notes, see [111439].

SMDL

18/05/2018

[1] See DLA051-0039, letter from Anny Aczél to de László, 18 September 1931, in which she asks for de László’s advice on whether the portrait should be varnished and glazed.

[2] De László had begun painting Doctor Aczél in London on 16th May 1931 [110776]. The sittings were interrupted on 19th May when Aczél returned to Budapest. De László intended to continue the portrait on 23rd June; however, on 14th June he received news that Aczél had died suddenly in Carlsbad. As de László recorded in his diary, he had, by that stage, finished the head of the portrait (see DLA125-0001, Philip de László, 1931 diary, private collection, 14 June entry, p. 169).