ANNENKOFF, George. Autograph Letter. (c. 1930's). Autograph letter. First eight pages only, on four blue quarto sheets. An important letter, addressed to Abram Markovitch (Efros) and most likely written in the 1930s. Efros was a well-known art historian and critic who worked in the Moscow Art Theater with Stanislavsky. He began corresponding with Annenkoff in 1922 and introduced him to Stanislavsky. The first four pages of this manuscript are dedicated to thoughts about the life of the painter in Paris. Annenkoff compares the painter to a worker at the Citroen company. As soon as a painter becomes dependent upon his agent he is like a worker on a production line -- which he sees as having both good and bad aspects. This, he contends, is totally different from the painter's life in Russia. Annenkoff further discusses the state of the Russian government, mentions the book 17 Portraits, for which he is well known, and lists the original portraits from the book that he still has in his possession. Very good.

• Category: Manuscripts / Autograph Letters
• Keywords: Art · illustrated · Manuscripts · paris · Russian · sf
• Language: Deutsch
• Inventory number: 6588LB

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