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RENOIR (PIERRE-AUGUSTE)
Autograph letter signed ("Renoir"), to "Cher Ami", in French, expressing his distress that the young girl teaching Coco [his youngest child Claude] to read should be upset, [no place], 29 September [19]09

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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RENOIR (PIERRE-AUGUSTE)

Autograph letter signed ("Renoir"), to "Cher Ami", in French, expressing his distress that the young girl teaching Coco [his youngest child Claude] to read should be upset, and asking whom he should address to repair this injustice, ("Je ne puis laisser cette jeune fille dans cet etat par ma faute... j'irai jusqu'au bout pour réparer cette injustice"), 1 page, 8vo, [no place], 29 September [19]09

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