BERLIN, Sven

BERLIN, SVEN. MORAN, JACQUE. A scrapbook compiled by Victor Bramley for Jacque. Includes three letters to Jacque Moran from Sven Berlin, dated September ’45, August ’49 & June 1950

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BERLIN, SVEN. MORAN, JACQUE. A scrapbook compiled by Victor Bramley for Jacque. Includes three letters to Jacque Moran from Sven Berlin, dated September ’45, August ’49 & June 1950. Saint Ives.: Self-published., 1992. First edition. A scrapbook compiled by Victor Bramley for Jacque. Includes three letters to Jacque Moran from Sven Berlin, dated September ’45, August ’49 & June 1950. In the first two letters, he writes lovingly of Jacque getting better & how difficult it is being without her. Of preparing The Tower for her arrival. In the 1950 letter he writes, ‘I am still with ‘Mrs Fisher’ – (she is divorced now). It is almost impossible to explain how I am placed….in a letter. I had to write to you….the obstacles have been and are so big between us….I’ve been terrified I may hurt you again….I still say I never drew anyone like I draw Jacque. That is because no-one ever got so deep into my life and work and everything I did….’. A mounted b/w photograph of Berlin circa 1950. A GPO Greetings Telegraph from Berlin to the Penwith Society of Arts in respect of Alfred Wallis ‘Good Luck Dear Ghost, Love Sven +’. Also, a greetings card from Jeffrey Harris & Gwen Leitch, press cuttings & some examples of Jacque’s drawings & automatic writing.

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Book ID: 035563