(Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE) Colette DESTOUCHES
Rare portrait enfantin inédit de Colette Destouches, fille de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Menzil|Rennes circa 1921|14.50 x 21.80 cm|Photographie
Rare and unpublished childhood portrait of Colette Destouches, only daughter of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, born in 1920, on albumen paper mounted on cardboard from the Menzil studio.
Manuscript caption "Colette Destouches" inscribed on recto and verso, with the mention "1920".
The portrait was taken by the Menzil house, 6 rue Beaumont, Rennes, the city where Céline met and spent several
years in the company of Édith Follet, his second wife and mother of Colette.
This photograph of Colette Destouches, who is only a few months old, is to our knowledge unpublished. Céline retained throughout his life an affection for his daughter whom he saw regularly in Rennes, Geneva and Paris, and who was "surely more possessive in his way with her than he had been with any of his wives, his mistresses.
He had dreamed for her a glorious future, of a medical career, as if to strengthen their complicity" (Frédéric Vitoux, La Vie de Céline, coll. Folio, 2005, p. 636).
Manuscript caption "Colette Destouches" inscribed on recto and verso, with the mention "1920".
The portrait was taken by the Menzil house, 6 rue Beaumont, Rennes, the city where Céline met and spent several
years in the company of Édith Follet, his second wife and mother of Colette.
This photograph of Colette Destouches, who is only a few months old, is to our knowledge unpublished. Céline retained throughout his life an affection for his daughter whom he saw regularly in Rennes, Geneva and Paris, and who was "surely more possessive in his way with her than he had been with any of his wives, his mistresses.
He had dreamed for her a glorious future, of a medical career, as if to strengthen their complicity" (Frédéric Vitoux, La Vie de Céline, coll. Folio, 2005, p. 636).
€700