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- Erich Kahn 1904–1979
- Recipient
- Dr J. P. Hodin
- Title
- Undated fragment of letter from Erich Kahn to J.P. Hodin
- Date
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to Tate, 2006. Accrual presented by Annabel Hodin, 2020
- Reference
- TGA 20062/4/188/108
Description
[Translation/transcription]
(The typewriter has had it.)
A few lines in haste.
Many thanks for your kind card and the lovely long letter from Vicenza. I’m still reading it and discovering new things. Thank you for your attempts to raise me from the grave of obscurity (I’m not nearly as dead as Lazarus yet).
In great haste I have painted four new pictures, which are now hanging in a rather disappointing exhibition at the Ben Uri, where hardly anyone will see them, at any rate not those who ought to. But they are well hung at least and look better than they did here in the studio. Unfortunately the birth of these noisome oversize offspring took so much out of me that the ‘revered child-bearer’ (as Heine put it on another occasion) has to stay in bed recovering for half a day every day – until, hopefully, he can produce some new ones.
Warm regards,
Erich
Archive context
- Papers of Josef Paul Hodin TGA 20062 (407)
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- Correspondence by sender TGA 20062/4 (275)
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- Letters and postcards from Erich Kahn to J.P. and Pamela Hodin TGA 20062/4/188 (111)
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- Undated fragment of letter from Erich Kahn to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/188/108