"Alchimistes, Rimbaud ! Eclair ouvre le ciel de mon adolescence ! Je me sens poète et c'est bien le moment de m'arrêter !"

Autograph letter signed by Georges Auric addressed to Bolette Natanson. Two pages written in black ink on a folded sheet.
Folds inherent to mailing.
Beautiful poetic letter with Rimbaldian influences: "Alchimistes, Rimbaud ! Eclair ouvre le ciel de mon adolescence ! Je me sens poète et c'est bien le moment de m'arrêter !" ["Alchemists, Rimbaud! Lightning opens the sky of my adolescence! I feel like a poet and this is the right moment to stop!"]
Auric mentions a concert he must give at Mme Japy de Beaucourt's, who held a salon in honor of the review directed by Ricciotto Canudo Montjoie ! : "Je dois jouer - encore ! vendredi chez Mme J. de B. (non point n'est ce pas, Mme Jean de B(?) mais Mme Canudo de Beaucourt" ["I must play - again! Friday at Mme J. de B.'s (not, isn't it, Mme Jean de B(?) but Mme Canudo de Beaucourt"]. He adds: "Montjoie et Canudo, gras et bête italboche..." ["Montjoie and Canudo, fat and stupid Italian..."]
Having moved in artistic circles since her earliest childhood - she was the daughter of Alexandre and niece of Thadée Natanson, creators of the famous Revue Blanche - Bolette Natanson (1892-1936) became friends with Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Georges Auric, Jean Hugo and Colette.
Passionate about fashion, she left Paris for the United States with Misia Sert, close friend of Coco Chanel, and was hired at Goodman. With her husband Jean-Charles Moreux, they created the gallery Les Cadres on boulevard Saint-Honoré in 1929 and frequented numerous artists and intellectuals. Their success was immediate and they multiplied projects: creating the fireplace for Winnaretta de Polignac, decorating the château de Maulny, designing Baron de Rothschild's private mansion, creating frames for industrialist Bernard Reichenbach and finally creating the storefront for Colette's beauty institute in 1932. Bolette Natanson also framed works by her prestigious painter friends: Bonnard, Braque, Picasso, Vuillard, Man Ray, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, etc. Despite this meteoric rise, she took her own life in December 1936, a few months after her father's death.