André MALRAUX sends his new work La Création Artistique.

André MALRAUX (1901.1976)

Autograph letter signed to Frédéric Lefèvre.

One page in-8°. Stamped and canceled autograph envelope.

Biarritz. August 9 [1948].

Malraux sent his colleague his new work Artistic Creation.

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“Dear Frédéric Lefèvre, My mail has only just been forwarded to me. Understood: you will receive the Creation from Caulaincourt. I will return, I think, a few days after you. Good luck for the Plato, and believe in my friendly remembrance. Malraux »

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After the war years, Malraux's work turned resolutely towards aesthetic questions. Between 1947 and 1949, the publisher Skira, in Geneva, published: The Imaginary Museum , Artistic Creation , and The Money of the Absolute forming the three volumes of Psychology of Art. Revised and corrected, these works were collected in 1951 by Gallimard, under the title Les Voix du silence.

Novelist, essayist and literary critic, Frédéric Lefèvre (1889.1949) participated, in 1922, in the creation of the weekly magazine Nouvelles Littéraires . He was its editor-in-chief until his death in 1949. In the summer of 1948, Lefèvre was working on an essay on Plato, as evidenced by his personal archives now kept at the BNF. This essay did not see the light of day .