JACOB MAX: (1876-1944) French Poet and Painter.... Lot 664

JACOB MAX: (1876-1944) French Poet and Painter. A good A.L.S., Max Jacob, two pages, 4to, Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, 28th October 1925, to an unidentified friend, in French. Jacob refers to the fifteen pages he is sending to his correspondent, stating in part `They are part of a volume still unfinished and which will belong (in future) to the N.R.F. but in the meantime they belong only to me…´ Further saying `I still live immersed in this solitude of the Loire. Solitude which is not relative, not because of the trips to Paris which are quite rare, but because of visitors… But can I commit myself to send you prose, me whose time is taken by the painting and by the eternal novel in course which is like the rifle for the soldier, the bed for the sick patient, the table for the gluttonous..´ Jacob also refers on two occasions to one of his paintings Tableau de la Bourgeoisie, saying to a post-scriptum written to the left border `It rains a lot. Autumn gives continuity to a sad Summer. I am finishing Le Tableau de la Bourgeoisie. I will be publishing a book of verses this winter with Kra, and have started a book without topic.´ Very small overall minor age wear, otherwise G to VG