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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Ketty Carré; Edgar Degas; Kees van Dongen; Paul Durand-Ruel; Jules Migonney; Camille Pissarro; Auguste Renoir; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Maurice Utrillo; Suzanne Valadon; Federico Zandomeneghi; Edgar Degas; Kees van Dongen; Paul Durand-Ruel; Camille Pissarro; Auguste Renoir; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Maurice Utrillo; Suzanne Valadon; Federico Zandomeneghi |
Document Type: | Archival Material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ketty Carré |
OCLC Number: | 83206582 |
Notes: | Incomplete manuscript of ca. 90 unnumbered pages, written in blue ink on various papers; order of texts unknown; some are missing the last page; many have a short title; three separate texts about Susanne Valadon are dated on the first page 20-1-55, 16-1-56 and 28-11-56; a few texts were rewritten in 2 or 3 variants; a few pages contain preparatory notes; presumably unpublished. |
Description: | 1 item (49 leaves) ; 27 cm |
Abstract:
Ketty Carré wrote her recollections about Montmartre in colloquial style and separate installements of a few pages, which she mailed to an old unnamed friend. She addresses him sometimes in the text: "La prochaine fois je vous parlerai de Marcellin Desbouin." Some texts describe the Montmartre where she grew up from the 1880s on, with its streets, groceries, bistrots and restaurants, theaters, circuses, art galleries, and people. The ca. 90 pages are rich in portraits of artists, writers, musicians, and everyday characters (a grocer, a cab driver, a priest, a piano teacher), often mingled with autobiographical details. Short stories about artists from various generations, such as Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Utrillo, are scattered throughout the manuscript, but some texts are individual biographies dedicated to Suzanne Valadon, Van Dongen, Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Migonney, Federico Zandomeneghi, Georges Courteline, and others. The text about "le père" Durand Ruel and the art critic Arsène Alexandre ends with a nostalgic "ah, cher ami, quelle epoque merveilleuse!" It is signed.
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- Carré, Ketty, -- 1882-1964.
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- Migonney, Jules, -- 1876-1929.
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- Renoir, Auguste, -- 1841-1919.
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- Utrillo, Maurice, -- 1883-1955.
- Valadon, Suzanne, -- 1865-1938.
- Zandomeneghi, Federico, -- 1841-1917.
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