- Published / Created:
- 1943
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1097
- Collection Title:
- Carel Mondriaan papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 4
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
- Description:
- Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
- Subject (Name):
- Mondriaan, Louis Cornelis, 1877-1943
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists--Netherlands
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Louis Cornelis Mondriaan funeral notice
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- Creator:
- Malherbe, Suzanne, 1892-1972
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 721
- Collection Title:
- Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | 13-15
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Papers relating to World War II (in boxes 1-2) include copies of resistance propaganda, undated; letters and notes concerning the imprisonment of Cahun and Malherbe, 1943-1945 and undated; holograph memoir notes by Malherbe, undated; and a typescript memoir by Cahun and Malherbe, undated. and The Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe Papers consist of holograph and typescript writings by Cahun; memoirs, correspondence, and notes relating to their experiences during World War II; and a small amount of other correspondence and copies of photographs by Cahun.
- Description:
- Claude Cahun, born Lucy Schwob, was a French photographer, artist, and author. Cahun was associated with the Surrealist movement, and her photography and writings addressed issues of gender identity. In 1937 she moved to Jersey in the Channel Islands with her partner Suzanne Malherbe, an illustrator who adopted the name Marcel Moore. Cahun and Malherbe were active in the resistance during the German occupation of Jersey during World War II. They were imprisoned and sentenced to death in 1944, but were liberated at the end of the war. and Formerly owned by Basil Bigg. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Jersey (Channel Islands)
- Subject (Name):
- Bigg, Basil--Ownership and Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Jersey
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Memoir notes by Malherbe
- Creator:
- Mondriaan, Willem Frederik, 1874-1944
- Published / Created:
- 1943-44
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 1097
- Collection Title:
- Carel Mondriaan papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 3
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
- Description:
- Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
- Subject (Name):
- Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956 and Mondriaan, Louis Cornelis, 1877-1943
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists--Netherlands
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Willem Frederik Mondriaan telegrams