Cuca SOKIC - Approximately 200 signed autograph letters illustrated. Exceptional

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Cuca SOKIC - Approximately 200 signed autograph letters illustrated. Exceptional:
$108138.50

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Ljubica SOKIC, said Cuca SOKIC (1914.2009)

Correspondence with Olga Kechelievich-Barbezat.

Exceptional set of over 200 autograph letters signed to her friend Olga.

Approximately 1000 handwritten pages in Serbian and French.

Most letters are in-4° or folio format.

Between 1938 and 1945.

"I will work - I will work all the time. »

This completely unpublished correspondence reveals hundreds of drawings, paintings, sketches and collages, previously unknown to the Serbian artist.""

Within these letters, Sokic develops his passion for art and creation, the genesis of his pictorial work in the making." She shares her doubts, influences, and inspirations from the great masters: " Pablo Picasso is also considerable. He is a great man, a real strength, a Spaniard, really his painting carries within it something grandiose. »

This thousand handwritten pages is a dive into the heart of the young artist’s abundant creativity, revealing the foundation stones of the work in the making: "I worked too hard. Really too much. I really put all my energy into the big board. I feel like I can still paint a lot of things. But I won't be finishing it the day before the show. It will stay that way. »

Inspired by French culture, Cuca Sokic evokes the poets Rimbaud, Lautréamont and Baudelaire while questioning her friend Olga, who remained in Paris, about her fellow writers, such as Sartre, Camus, Cocteau, and her husband Marc Barbezat and the first publications of Jean Genet.

The ensemble allows a fresh and fundamental look at many aspects of each person’s life and the artistic world of the time: Cuca and her art in Belgrade; Olga and her theatre in Paris.

Of course, the letters are often tinged with the anxieties of war, but these are a perfect testament to art’s precedence and beauty in the face of the torments of the European conflict: "War, again war. Seriously. God bless us. The future is totally uncertain, even for the Devil, it seems to me. How will it evolve? What is the situation in Paris? »

Over the course of these lines, covered with drawings, Sokic’s fierce desire to be understood as a renowned artist is discovered:’ I paint. I paint all holy day. And it looks like I'm going to end up doing something. And one day, when I can paint whatever I want, then I will make your big portrait. »

Exceptional ensemble that will further deepen the knowledge and biography of this immense Serbian artist."

Photographs and transcripts upon request.

Ljubica SOKIC is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century in Serbia. She attended Belgrade High School, where Zora Petrovic was her teacher. She also learned painting with, among others, Beta Vukanovic and Ivan Radovic.

Ljubica Sokić worked and presented her works in galleries in Paris between 1936 and 1939. Back from Paris to Belgrade, she presented her works independently for the first time in 1939 at the Belgrade Pavilion "Cvijeta Zuzoric"

She was one of the founders of the art group "Desetorica" ("The Group of Ten"). Also professor at the Belgrade Academy of Visual Arts between 1948 and 1972. In 1968 she became a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and, from 1978, an academician.

In addition to painting, she has created illustrations for children's books and magazines, and has also worked in film.

She died on January 8, 2009, at the age of 94, in Belgrade and was buried five days later in Novo Groblje Cemetery. The Pavle Beljanski Museum in Novi Sad preserves a collection of paintings by Sokic.

Olga KECHELIEVITCH-BARBEZAT (1913.2015) - Very little is known about Olga Kechelievich. Originally from Serbia, she studied theatre in Paris during Cours Dullin in the late 1930s. As an actress, she played several roles in Paris and met great French writers and painters, such as Albert CAMUS, Jean Paul SARTRE, Jean COCTEAU, etc.

In 1943, she married French writer and publisher Marc BARBEZAT. This wedding is a defining step for both of us. Indeed, Olga sent Barbezat a copy of "The Condemned to Death" written by the French poet Jean GENET. This is the beginning of a great editorial story with the launch, as early as 1941, of the publishing house "L'ARBALÈTE" which will take under its wing Genet.

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