TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (Henri de). Autograph letter... Lot 30

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (Henri de). Autograph letter signed "votre fils" to his mother. [Paris], "dimanche" [October 1884]. 3 pp. in-12; missing margins, splits at folds. "My dear mother... Dad wrote to me very kindly, asking me to withdraw his parcels from Pérey's where he had left them. You see, then, that the break-up that ended in a cod-end may not be as difficult to renew as we fear [the painter had a difficult relationship with his father]. Act calmly and don't make a fuss. I HAVE NOT YET SHOWN ANYTHING TO CORMON [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a student in Fernand Cormon's studio from 1882 to 1886] but I have seen him - and he was very kind... NO MORE CHOLERA THAN ON MY HAND, Bourges pushed me around a lot when I showed him my terrors [Henri Bourges, Toulouse-Lautrec's childhood friend, then a medical student]... That's my little chronicle, succinct and to the point. I GIVE YOU MY WARMEST EMBRACE, AND WILL GET DOWN TO WORK TOMORROW MORNING... " THE PAINTER'S MOTHER, ADELE TAPIE DE CELEYRAN, COMTESSE DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1841-1930), gave him active support in his early years as an artist, and retained her affection for him when, considered to have fallen from grace, he reluctantly broke with his milieu. She would not abandon him until the end of his life, when he multiplied his eccentricities.