COLETTE’s tulips and pointed snout.

“How much pleasure I had from the pointy snouts of these tulips! They are still very much alive.”

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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette , known as COLETTE (1873.1954)

Autograph photograph signed to Elvire Choureau, known as “Patron”.

In the margin of a silver print showing the author at her work table.

Size: 9 x 11.50 cm.

Colette's tulips and pointy snout.

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“My dear Boss, how much pleasure I had from the pointed snouts of these tulips! They are still very much alive. All the best, my dear Boss. I kiss you with all my heart, Maurice too. Colette. »

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Elvire Choureau (1892.1986) – founder of the bookstore L'Artisan du livre, which she managed for more than fifty years – met Colette at the dawn of the Second World War. The two friends did not leave each other until the latter's death.

 

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