Documents associated with: etching exhibition
Record 16 of 41
System Number: 13443
Date: [23 February 1890][1]
Author: Stéphane Mallarmé[2]
Place: Paris
Recipient: JW
Place: [London]
Repository: Published[3]
Document Type: PLc
Paris 89 rue de Rome,
Dimanche
Mon cher ami
Voilà, on fait chez Durand-Ruel[4], au premier Mars, l'exposition des peintres-graveurs[5], et l'on brûle de posséder votre acquiescement à en faire partie ou simplement une autorisation d'y mettre les eaux-fortes que possède de vous le magasin. Or l'amusant, c'est qu'on me fasse l'intermédiaire de cette requête, parce que, mon cher Whistler, on me prête quelque influence, et cela me flatte. Un mot, votre main. Je viens de mettre à feu la Belgique avec une conférence[6]. Amitiés à Madame[7]
votre
Stéphane Mallarmé
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Translation:
Paris 89 rue de Rome,
Sunday
My dear friend
There you are, they are having the exhibition of the painter-engravers at Durand-Ruel, on 1st March , and they are desperate to have your agreement to be part of it, or at least to have your permission to display the etchings of yours that the shop has. But the funny part is that I have been made the go-between for this request, because, my dear Whistler, I am said to have some influence, and that flatters me. A word, then your hand. I have just set Belgium alight with a lecture. Regards to Madame
yours
Stéphane Mallarmé
Notes:
1. [23 February 1890]
Dated by Barbier (see below). JW replied on 27 February 1890 (see #03795).
2. Stéphane Mallarmé
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), Symbolist writer and poet [more].
3. [Published]
Published in Barbier, Carl P., ed., Correspondance Mallarmé-Whistler: Histoire de la grande amitié de leurs dernières années, Paris, 1964 [GM, A.28], no. XXVIII, p. 52.
4. Durand-Ruel
Paul Durand-Ruel (1828 or 1831-1922), Paris art dealer, or one of his sons, Joseph (1862-1928), Charles (1865-1892) or Georges (1866-1931).
5. exposition des peintres-graveurs
The second annual exhibition, from 7-26 March 1890.
6. conférence
A lecture on Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, that Mallarmé gave six times from 10-18 February, twice in Brussels, then at Antwerp, Ghent, Liège and Bruges.
7. Madame
Beatrix Whistler (1857-1896), née Beatrice Philip, artist [more].