1592970829000 1451987353000 Standard Record object-110001965 1747159730549 1451987654000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110001965 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110001965 41e258fb-0040-3201-bc40-b413f9ced8ae 4 person reference agent-189422 adlib-agent-189422 8da3a831-a81e-353e-b00c-57283c841d23 Blanchet, Robert content description 2 sheets. Further to the success of Strachan’s exhibition at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh in 1967 (relevant catalogue sent to Blanchet in July 1967), Strachan is presently involved in the preparation of a series of exhibitions dealing with his collection of entire books and single pages for municipal galleries and universities in Leicester, Bradford, Durham and possibly Sheffield, beginning on 19 December. In this context, he finds that the author of Le Sport is missing from material sent to him by Blanchet some time ago. Frelant has told him that they are responsible for the etchings and he knows that Jacques Beltrand made the woodcuts, on the basis of drawings by Segonzac. He asks Blanchet to let him know as soon as possible whether Segonzac also wrote the text, which he doubts, as he did not write the text for Boxe, although he was much interested in it. In these exhibitions, where Strachan also shows a loose page of Blanchet’s Cris, he goes into much detail for the period 1943-1968, with a considerable number of artists (painters, sculptors, painter-engravers), of all kinds: classic (Despiau’s Olympiques), surrealist, fantaisist, art brut, nuclear art (Bertini) and satiric art (Louttre). He would be happy to include in his forthcoming presentations and exhibitions (as in Norwich, Hull and Cambridge in 1969) loose pages of any new titles of Blanchet’s, as well as show them to his friend, the Head Librarian at the V&A. Strachan’s book is due to be published in May 1969. It is much bigger than expected. Mr Wittenborn of New York has ordered 500 copies (total print run: 2125), and has written him an appreciative letter regarding the text as well as the illustrations. Unfortunately the price is higher than he would have liked, i.e. £16 guineas, but he has been told that his is the most complete treatment of the subject in existence at present (180 illustrations, 368 pages). He has just paid £50 to have the index prepared, but hopes to recoup some of his expenses when the book appears, particularly as Paris was very expensive in 1968, and he fears for 1969. Strachan has recently bought a beautiful classic bronze by Lucile Passavant, a student of Maillol’s; the master’s influence is clear to see, but “it is a charming thing for someone who cannot afford a Maillol!” However, he owns a bronze given to him by Moore and, as Blanchet knows, a cage-full of 34 owls and bats illustrations (including the beautiful engraving by Lorjon, acquired thanks to Blanchet) and a Gantner, a present from Marcel Galland and Therese Mancey of the Societe Bibliophile. He sends kind regards and best wishes. Strachan/10/2/2/8 1 accession number Strachan/10/2/2/8 110001965 priref 110001965 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110001965 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110001965 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1968 1968 1968-11-29 reference agent-189424 adlib-agent-189424 2bd68127-062e-3ac4-a049-8f7493fc235c Strachan, Walter Strachan/10/2/2/8 object OBJECT