ELIE LASCAUX (1888-1969) Ensemble de 6 pièces. Dessins, gouache, écrits autographes signés.

1) Autograph letter signed "Elie Lascaux" [Boulogne/ Seine, Saturday 20 December 1946] addressed to "My dear friend" [Mme Marie Lagrange], he tells her about their friendship, his family and their memories of "the dark hours we lived through" [at the Repaire, in Saint Léonard de Noblat, during the war, where they spent several Christmases]. - He regrets not having any news of Marie Thérèse [Lagrange] - He asks her what she is doing in Saint Dié - He sends her his best wishes - "It is very cold in Paris, but it is Paris; so we are happy". With, on the third page, an ORIGINAL DRAWING in pen, SIGNED "ELIE", titled "Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année 1947" [Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 1947]. Depicting a conversation under the window between Lascaux and his friend Marie Lagrange in December 1946. 3 pages in12 (double sheet) 14 x 10,5 cm 2) Original miniature "self-portrait" signed "Elie 45" Gouache on cardboard size 9,5 x 5 cm 3) MENU ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING by Elie Lascaux. "Nous n'irons plus au bois, Noël 1941, Saint Léonard de Noblat" [We won't be going to the woods again, Christmas 1941, Saint Léonard de Noblat] Illustrated with a colour drawing (a round dance) size 10.5 x 8 cm 4) Menu illustrated with an original drawing signed "Elie" Illustrated with a black and red ink drawing (Christmas tree) size 10 x 6 cm 5) Original drawing signed in pencil " Elie" Dedicated "To Marie Thérèse in memory of her visit to Boulogne, 2 November 45, Elie". Depicting a forgotten shawl on a stone bench against a background of trees and flowers. Size 23.5 x 16 cm 6) Handwritten poem and original drawing signed "Elie" lower right Titled "Joyeux Vingt ans" [Happy Twenties], Saint-Léonard 1944. Drawing in colour with an autograph quatrain in ink in the middle. Size 24 x 15.7 cm Élie Lascaux, a French naive painter, settled in Montmartre at the end of the First World War. There he met Georges Limbour and Suzanne Valadon, who encouraged him to paint and introduced him to Max Jacob. Lascaux also met André Malraux, Raymond Queneau, but also André Beaudin and Juan Gris. In 1922, he met Daniel- Henry Kahnweiler, an art dealer, who became his dealer and protector. During the Second World War, he took refuge in a villa near Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in the Limousin region, together with other Jewish people: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Michel Leiris, founder of the Collège de Sociologie, and the writer Raymond Queneau. For three years, the protagonists of this exodus read, wrote, drew and supported each other in the face of adversity: «three years of happiness, paradise in the shadow of the crematoria», said Kahnweiler. ‘Virgin and Child’ was painted during this period. Élie Lascaux was also a good friend of Pablo Picasso, who supported him in the 1960s for his boldness and perseverance. Picasso had a collection of drawings by Élie Lascaux.