IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESSED TO CLÉO de MÉRODE. - Lot 295

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IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESSED TO CLÉO de MÉRODE. - Lot 295
IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESSED TO CLÉO de MÉRODE. Correspondence: 27 letters from Luis, 1 from Carmen, 1 from his father, 1 telegram informing her of her father's death, all addressed to her, accompanied by 3 letters written by the famous dancer, the one that Jean Cocteau designated as the "Belle of the beautiful ones". 2000/2 500 Famous classical dancer, Cléopâtre-Diane de Merode, known as Cléo de Mérode, was born of an illegitimate union. from an illegitimate union. She is the daughter of Vincentia Marie Cécilia von Merode (1850-1899), Belgian baroness of the Austrian branch of the family of Merode, abandoned by her lover, a member of the Austrian upper middle class. Cleo was one of the first women whose photographic image was distributed on a worldwide scale. Elected "Queen of Beauty" by the readers of L'Illustration in 1896, Cleo posed for the painters Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain and Giovanni Boldini. She increases her fame the same year with a scent of scandal, due to the exhibition of the sculpture the exhibition of the sculpture The Dancer by Alexandre Falguière at the Salon des artistes French artists. This life-size white marble nude would have been carved from a plaster cast of her body plaster cast of her body, a work kept in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay. If the grain of the skin visible on the plaster proves a live casting, Cléo de Mérode has always however always defended herself from having posed naked. She accuses Falguière of having made a scandalous work by molding the body of the statue on another female model, while she would have posed only for the head. So, but she did not hesitate to pose hardly veiled veiled for her lover Luis de Périnat (1872-1923), marquis of Périnat. This Great of Spain, was a Spanish sculptor and diplomat, attaché of the Spanish embassy in Paris. The sculpture that he made of Cleo was intended to decorate the tomb of Vincentia's tomb in Père Lachaise. It will be said that the sculptors caused him much harm. After thirteen years of sentimental relations, Cleo discovered a letter from Luis' mother, reproaching her son for having impregnated a young woman.
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