Seligmann, Kurt

3 autograph letters and 6 typescript letters signed ("Kurt"), in French or in English, including one with a large original drawing; 7 autograph letters signed from Arlette Seligmann to Diane Bouchard, with original drawings; one original etching, signed ("K. Seligmann, 59") and numbered ("11/40"), signed and numbered 11/40; 8 autograph postcards signed, 1 autograph note signed and 1 typescript card.
[together with]: 
Stevens, Wallace - Kurt Seligmann. A primitive like an orb. New York, the Gotham book mart, 1948. First edition, one of the 500 copies, printed olive green wrappers (one of three variant bindings, no priority), with two illustrations by Kurt Seligmann on zebu paper.

The Estate of Diane Bouchard.

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Prior to the documentary on Miro, Thomas and Diane Bouchard created in 1950 a film about Kurt Selgimann: a Birth of a Painting. Seligmann and Bouchard met when they were neighbors in the Beaux Arts building in New York, and lived in the same town.
At the beginning he asks about the film, but without interfering in the production, mocking the other "subjects" of Bouchard movies: "What became of the film? Is it spliced, synchronized, ready for performance? You did not write us about it , and “I, Nicolas Flamel,” am very disappointed not to know the happy end with dear old Stanley. [...] Thomas, I have an idea for a new film: The birth of a movie, showing how you proceed when working with your artists. Electricity tapped from street lights, Léger devouring a juicy watermelon, Helion measuring – for comparison – the length of his film and that of Leger, Hayter inviting his school for the shooting of Miro, Miro refusing to show the hair of his chest [...]".

He told him about his future shows and his delay in the preparation: "Depuis que je t’ai vu j’ai dormi, pour ainsi dire, le pinceau en main. Je ne fais pas de calembour : il s’agit de pinceau pour peindre. Dans six semaines, l'exposition Iolas doit s'ouvrir [...] mon nouveau style se fait tres, tres lentement. Comment forcer la chose?"

The correspondence reveals a very friendly relationship, showing a funny and mocking Seligman.