CHAISSAC Gaston [Avallon, 1910 - Vix, 1964], French painter - Lot 196

CHAISSAC Gaston [Avallon, 1910 - Vix, 1964], French painter and man of letters. Autograph letter signed to Dr. Robert Forestier. Clairvivre, March 29, 1940; 2 pages in-4°. Dr. Robert Forestier was one of the doctors at the sanatorium of La Musse, near Evreux where Chaissac treated his tuberculosis in 1938, before being sent to the sanitary village of of Clairvivre, in the Dordogne, where he stayed until the beginning of May 1942, then moving to the Vendée with his teacher wife. He asked for medical advice for his health, which left something to be desired, a weakness which he said was due to to the conditions of his birth and an impressionable childhood. He evokes his intestinal problems, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorders and persistent asthenia. "I am convinced that it is an instinct which pushes the civilized man to drink alcohol, to make himself fat (the matter suffocates the spirit). For me, who lacks a stomach, there is no question of drinking alcohol. But medicine But medicine must have other resources. What do you think of all this? On the second page of the letter of the letter, a pencil sketch, representing a group of characters, one of whom is holding a horse by the bridle.