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- Oskar Kokoschka 1886–1980
- Recipient
- Dr J. P. Hodin
- Title
- Letter from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin
- Date
- 18 April 1945
- 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 20062/4/199/1/9
Description
[Translation/transcription]
Dartington Hall, Totnes
Wednesday
Dear Hodinus,
Many thanks for your kind letter. You always seem to have something uplifting to report. I shall return to London at the end of next week if I have the heart to bring Olda out of the sunshine and back to this bedlam. You won't have submitted the article to John Lehmann by that point, is that right? I gave your study on early Serbian frescoes to Milosavljevich to take to Belgrade. They're going to publish it there. I myself was quite fascinated by it.
You're absolutely right about André Gide. He's one of the few thinking people alive today and for that reason a voice in the desert - though that goes without saying. I'm amazed that no-one from the 'centre-right and radical-left' parties has done away with him yet. Today, when the largest bomb has come to symbolise the genius of a nation, where might has become right, it follows that a bludgeon to the head ought to be the only valid argument in the battle of ideas. All this could still happen. And a fine head it is, too.
I'm very much looking forward to seeing you also. I do hope you're not going away soon.
Olda sends best wishes. Kind regards,
Yours,
OK
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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- Correspondence between Oskar Kokoschka and J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/199 (112)
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- Correspondence from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin, 1938-48 TGA 20062/4/199/1 (25)
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- Letter from Oskar Kokoschka to J.P. Hodin TGA 20062/4/199/1/9