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  • [Lawrence DURRELL] Oscar EPFS

Original drawing in ink, pencil and felt-tip pen with an autograph inscription signed to his French lover

1969, dessin 1963|31.90 x 47.60 cm|une feuille

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An original drawing signed and dated 1963, on thick paper, with an autograph inscription from the artist at the bottom dated 1969.
An exceptional original ink, pencil, and felt-tip color drawing by Lawrence Durrell, signed with his artist's pseudonym of '[Oscar] Epfs 1963'».
This work was given to his French lover Janine Brun in 1969 and has an exceptional inscription «My dear Buttons. I have asked my friend Oscar Epfs to give me a small drawing for your studio. Here it is. I hope it gives you Happy memories of Paris and meetings with Miller! Your devoted Laurence Durrell / Sommières / 1969.»
This work is steeped in his long years in Greece and one can see one of Durrell's favorite themes, the Greek church with its dome and cross, recalling the island landscapes so dear to the author. In varicolored inks and colored pencils, his drawings are bathed in Mediterranean light and enriched with miniatures in felt-tip. Durrell kept up his writing and painting right to the end of his life at Sommières, paying homage to Provence and the Mediterranean with his numerous drawings and gouaches, as well as his final novel, Caesar's Vast Ghost.

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Après de nombreuses années passées en Grèce, en Egypte et à Rhodes, l'écrivain voyageur Lawrence Durrell fut contraint de fuir Chypre à la suite de soulèvements populaires qui menèrent l'île à son indépendance. Riche seulement d'une chemise et d'une machine à écrire mais auréolé du succès de ses romans Bitter Lemons of Cyprus et Justine, il arriva en 1956 en France et s'établit dans le village languedocien de Sommières. Dans la « maison Tartès », sa grande demeure entourée d'arbres, il écrivit la seconde partie de son œuvre, son monumental Quintette d'Avignon, s'adonna à la peinture et reçut ses illustres amis, dont le couple Henry Miller et Anaïs Nin, le violoniste Yehudi Menuhin, l'éditeur londonien Alan G. Thomas, et ses deux filles Pénélope et Sappho.
Parmi les oliviers et sous le soleil méditerranéen, il y rencontre au milieu des années 1960 la jeune et pétillante « Jany » (Janine Brun), Montpelliéraine d'une trentaine d'années à la beauté ravageuse, qui travaillait au département des Antiquités de la Sorbonne à Paris. Elle fut prénommée « Buttons » en souvenir de leur première rencontre, où la jeune fille portait une robe couverte de boutons. Henry Miller tomba également sous le charme de « Buttons », louant sa beauté et son éternelle jeunesse dans d'exceptionnelles lettres restées inédites. Les trois compères passèrent des soirées parisiennes mémorables dont nous gardons de précieuses traces autographes sur un menu de restaurant et à travers leurs échanges épistolaires. Recommandée par Durrell, elle fit de nombreux voyages notamment en Angleterre d'où elle reçut une vaste correspondance de l'écrivain ainsi que des œuvres d'art originales signées de son pseudonyme d'artiste, Oscar Epfs.

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    DURRELL Lawrence
  • Year:
    1969, dessin 1963
  • Dimensions:
    31.90 x 47.60 cm
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[Lawrence DURRELL] Oscar EPFS • Original drawing in ink, pencil and felt-tip pen with an autograph inscription signed to his French lover • Dessin original à l'encre, feutres, crayons et graphite portant une dédicace autographe signée à son amante française • Autograph • 1969
[Lawrence DURRELL] Oscar EPFS • Original drawing in ink, pencil and felt-tip pen with an autograph inscription signed to his French lover • Dessin original à l'encre, feutres, crayons et graphite portant une dédicace autographe signée à son amante française • Autograph • 1969
[Lawrence DURRELL] Oscar EPFS • Original drawing in ink, pencil and felt-tip pen with an autograph inscription signed to his French lover • Dessin original à l'encre, feutres, crayons et graphite portant une dédicace autographe signée à son amante française • Autograph • 1969
[Lawrence DURRELL] Oscar EPFS • Original drawing in ink, pencil and felt-tip pen with an autograph inscription signed to his French lover • Dessin original à l'encre, feutres, crayons et graphite portant une dédicace autographe signée à son amante française • Autograph • 1969
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