RICTUS (Gabriel Randon, known as Jehan). Set including 6 let - Lot 154

RICTUS (Gabriel Randon, known as Jehan). Set including 6 letters and cards, as well as 4 portraits. - 4 autograph letters and cards signed to his close friend Ivan Lamberty. October 26, 1912: on STEINLEN RUINE'S ENTEMPT TO SEEK SUCCESS WITH HIS PAINTING, on the war in the Balkans, on his temptation to exhibit his cartoons, with illustration of an ORIGINAL DRAWING (ink and pen), humorous playlet on the theme of the Balkan war. November 5, 1912: concerning his accusation of plagiarism against TRISTAN BERNARD, following the alleged theft of ERNEST LA JEUNESSE from ALPHONSE ALLAIS ; Rictus also added that Alphonse Allais had died of alcohol-related grief because his wife was Ernest La Jeunesse's mistress; he also mentioned the sculptor Medardo Rosso, about whom he was writing a study, the painter Jean Laudy and the writer Claude Farrère. January 14, 1914: on his collection Le Coeur populaire and on Lucien Descaves' Barrabas illustrated by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. September 3, 1919: on the organization of a meeting. - Autograph letter signed to "Jââââââââne!!!" [probably his friend the woman of letters Jeanne Landre]. August 4, 1929. " ... Perhaps, if you make a moral painting of bibi, you can talk about my verve, my gaiety, my imaginative fantasy that unfolds in the course of a conversation. And about MY HORROR OF "CLICHES", "proverbs", "sentences", ready-made locutions and conventional apophthegms. He also evokes LES SOLILOQUES DU PAUVRE, and a portrait of himself as a young man ("I resemble Christ, if you like, but also Ronsard and Henri II..."). He then recounts a series of anecdotes in which his sense of humor enabled him to get out of tricky (e.g. with Laurent Tailhade) or even perilous situations with armed thugs. - Autograph letter signed with his real name to a "dear Monsieur Hauser" [probably the writer and journalist Fernand Hauser]. S.d. He asks for a reply to the manuscripts he has sent him for publication. - Photographic portrait. Cliché by Regina Devin in Paris. Autograph letter signed on the front to the writer Charles Gillet. May-June 1914. - Group photographic portrait of Jehan Rictus and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, in 3 prints, one of which is on the front of an autograph card signed by Ivan Lamberty (scratches on this text on verso).