BOGGS Frank (Frank Myers Boggs, said) [Springfield, Ohio, 18 - Lot 164

BOGGS Frank (Frank Myers Boggs, said) [Springfield, Ohio, 1855 - Meudon, 1926], French painter French painter of American origin. 69 autographed letters signed and a telegram to the art dealer Hector Brame, 8 autograph letters signed to Levalley or Leblond, employees of the Brame gallery. 1895-1901; 180 pages of various sizes. Important correspondence from this painter of seascapes and landscapes, of American origin, addressed to his merchant to whom he asks for some "galette", while informing him of the the progress of his work. In 1896, between August and November, Boggs worked at Grandcamp in Calvados, complaining about sometimes too much sun cost him all his cobalt blue, sometimes too much rain prevented him from working on his sometimes too much rain that prevents him from working on the beach. In the house where he stays with his family, the humidity covers them with mushrooms! However he will be able to send some paintings and he already has and he already has about twenty studies of seascapes. To the two letters of 1897 is joined a bill emanating from the Society of the French Artists which informs Boggs that an amateur, Mr. Wenceslas Kateneff, offers 400 frs for his painting, The Bridge Saint-Michel. Much of this correspondence is dated 1899, from Grandcamp where Boggs worked from February to November. Again, he despaired of the abominable abominable. ─ March 7, 1899: "I am working but what blue sky and I who came for the storms!!! and cobalt is so expensive!!!"; and in postscript, he mentions the political situation, a few weeks after the failed coup d'état of Paul Déroulède and the election of President Émile Loubet: "Is Mr. Roquet happy with the new President? It seems to me that his friend Déroulède is doing something stupid? When the weather finally turns bad, he is happy, having made a beautiful study of the arrival of the a beautiful study of the arrival of the boats on the quay and the sale of the fish. And when he can, he goes to sea, to study boats. He went to Isigny, Barfleur, Honfleur, Lisieux or from where he brings back studies and watercolors, some of which he sends in exchange for the rent of his or to reimburse himself for the expenses he was obliged to incur to make a house habitable where he house where he lives. He asks for the sending of material, paper for his watercolors, tubes of paint for his watercolors, tubes of paint, the catalog of the Jongkind sale, retouching varnish, or even plates Photo-Hall, acknowledging receipt of the money sent to him by Levalley. The following year, he went to the Bay of the Somme, to Abbeville and then to Amiens, always always complaining when the weather is good, and always needing money. In the fall of 1901, he left Nanterre and moved with his family to Autouillet, in the Yvelines. Three letters with drawings: the one of August 20, 1896 is illustrated with a small face waving the one of February 25, 1899 is accompanied by a sketch of marine, with indication of colors (white and blue) and on the one of September 15, 1899, Boggs who waits for news of his friend, drew a his friend, drew a hand near a wide open ear. Attached: 47 receipts signed by Boggs, for sums paid by the Brame house, between March 22, 1895 and April 12, 1900, 3 receipts of rent for his house in Nanterre, a receipt of bank and 2 invoices bank receipt and 2 invoices (of the merchant of colors Contet in Paris and of a pharmacist in Autouillet).