"Je me suis mis à peindre... j'en avais faim"

Autograph letter signed by Paul Signac, 4 pages written in blue ink, on letterhead from his property "Les Maraniousques Viviers (Ardèche)"
Paper lacks not affecting text at central fold of bifolium and lower margin of first leaf.
Signac addresses his correspondent from his small house situated on the right bank of the Rhône, south of Montélimar where he had just settled: "This country is very beautiful and our little house is beginning to get organized. You will see this when "coming back down". He would reside there until the end of his life. After devoting himself to illustrating Stendhal's Memoirs of a Tourist, he confides: "I have started painting... I was hungry for it". The painter continues his missive with a comment probably concerning a house in the Breton country of his addressee, where Signac, passionate about port life, regularly resided and had created many of his canvases: "It was not very nice of them to increase us by half the price paid... precisely. [...] It is good that they realize their house is not so easy to rent (absence of beach, casino, sea... it doesn't suit people who want to tell their concierge "we went to the seaside!" And the rising railway fares prevent many families from going to Brittany. Perhaps next year they would be happy to take us... at the old price"

Charming letter from the painter, who embellished the second page with a small sun in ink.