February 13th 2025 Auction
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French Writer MAURICE DEKOBRA Hand Signed Original Self Portrait Drawing on album page dated Paris 1937.
"To Mlle Joséphine Campaccini
In very sincere remembrance
From
[Maurice Dekobra]
Paris, 1937."
Maurice Dekobra's works provide a snapshot of the Roaring Twenties and the interwar years, offering insights into the aspirations, escapism, and modernity of the period. His global outlook and flair for storytelling make him a significant figure in early 20th-century literature, particularly in the realm of popular fiction.
Maurice Dekobra was a French writer. His real name was Ernest-Maurice Tessier. Seen as a subversive writer in the 1920s and 1930s, he became one of the best-known French writers between the First and the Second World Wars. His books have been translated into 77 languages, and he has been described as an early example of an international best-seller writer. This is particularly true of his best known work, La Madone des Sleepings (1925).In spite of this, and the publication of a biography by Philippe Collas in 2001, he was declared a "total unknown" in 2005, though the republication of La Madone des Sleepings by the publisher Zulma in 2006 has increased awareness of him, at least in France.
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Maurice Dekobra signed self portrait
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