Documents associated with: Kunstausstellung der Berliner Sezession, Berlin, 1900
Record 2 of 3
System Number: 02073
Date: 24 May [1899?][1]
Author: Emil Heilbut[2]
Place: Paris
Recipient: JW
Place: [Paris]
Repository: Glasgow University Library
Call Number: MS Whistler H174
Document Type: ALS
HOTEL MIRABEAU
8, RUE DE LA PAIX, 8
PARIS
24 mai
Mon maître vénéré
je ne sais ce que c'est, mais le libraire n'a pas encore envoyé votre livre[3] que j'ai commandé il y a déjà longtemps. J'ai peur qu'il ne soit arrivé quelque malheur?
Quand pourrais-je avoir l'honneur de revenir dans votre atelier? pour prendre l'adresse de la "butterfly" maison[4] de Londres et pour parler de cette exposition de vos oeuvres à Berlin[5] - avec de sérieuses promesses, et garanties même, de vente -?
Veuillez agréer, mon Maître vénéré, l'expression des sentiments très distingués de votre vieil admirateur
E. Heilbut
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Translation:
My revered master,
I do not know what the problem is, but the bookshop has not yet sent your book that I ordered some time ago now. I am afraid that something is the matter?
When could I have the honour of returning to your studio? To take the address of the "butterfly" house in London and to speak of this exhibition of your work in Berlin – with serious promises, and even guarantees of sales –?
Please accept, my venerated Master, the expression of my very distinguished sentiments from your old admirer
E. Heilbut
Notes:
1. 24 May [1899?]
Dated by the reference to a book and exhibition.
2. Emil Heilbut
Emil Heilbut (1861-1921), painter [more].
3. livre
Possibly Whistler, James McNeill, Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict, Paris and New York, 1899 [GM, A.24].
4. maison
The Company of the Butterfly established in 1897 in Hinde Street, London, to sell JW's work. It was not a financial success.
5. Berlin
This may refer to a small dealer's exhibition or to the Kunstaustellung der Berliner Sezession, Berlin, 1900.