The Cotman Collection | 24

Cotmania. Vol. III. 1928-9

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/3
Page: 8 verso (numbered 14), attached letter, side 4


  • Description

    Letter from Luard to Kitson

    Letter from Luard to Kitson regarding the return of Normandy sketches

    Date: 23 October 1928

  • Transcription

    confidence, by my wife & will be registered to you.
    Thank you so much for lending them to me. So really kindly & confidently.
    I saw Hardie yesterday & I also saw unknown to me the aquatints after Cozens blottings as suggestions for landscape. They have a bold Japanese look. Hardie says they were done by inking crumpled paper. It is Leonardo's blots on the wall, & Turners' giving

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    children paint to dribble with. But it doesn't do the job complete. May I just have a card to say the drawings have reached you in safety to 9 Rue Victor Considérant, Paris XIV

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    where I hope to be Saturday night.
    Yours ever,
    L. D. Luard

    There were 20 drawings

Letter from Luard to Kitson