Camille CLAUDEL – Very rare autograph business card

Camille CLAUDEL (1864.1943)

Autograph business card to Gustave Geffroy.

Two pages in-32°. Slnd.

On a card engraved with her name Miss Camille Claudel .

Unpublished document in the Correspondence C. Claudel published by Reine Marie Paris.

Moving card of Camille, alone, fragile, and in search of protection.

“Miss Camille Claudel  very grateful to see that Mr. Geffroy does not forget her and retains the protection she so needs. »

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Gustave Geffroy (1855.1926), journalist and art critic, close to Rodin, immediately understood the artistic potential of Camille Claudel and ardently defended her work. Constantly promoting in his articles the “beautiful scholarly work” of Camille Claudel, Geffroy took up, in 1888, the cause of Çacountala exhibited at the Salon of French Artists, and was an immense defender of the work during the controversy surrounding it. of this group, in Châteauroux in 1895. As a true protector, gifted with faithful benevolence, it is this same Geffroy who, after having helped Camille to sell her bust of Rodin, introduced her to Eugène Blot who will exhibit eleven of his works in his gallery.

From the deep troubles that Camille Claudel experienced from 1905, we know to what extent the support of a critic-friend as influential as Gustave Geffroy was indispensable.