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REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION, PARTLY ORIGINAL.
Review copy.

Autograph signed letter to the poet and writer Max-Pol Fouchet :

"With kindest regards,
Jean Bazaine

Good condition.

The painter Jean Bazaine shared with Max-Pol Fouchet a commitment to the "Intellectual Resistance" against the Vichy regime. In charge of organising the Plastic Arts section of the cultural movement Jeune France, which was dissolved in 1942 because it was infiltrated by several of Pétain's opponents, Bazaine, together with the publisher André Lejard, organised the exhibition "Twenty Young Painters in the French Tradition". Beneath this double-entendre title lay a mockery of the Nazi ideology of "degenerate art": inaugurated in April 1941, it was in fact the first exhibition devoted to avant-garde painting to be organised under the Occupation.