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- Pierre-Olivier Dubaut 1886 – 1968
- Recipient
- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Title
- Preprinted postcard from Pierre Dubaut to Jacques Lipchitz
- Date
- 9 December 1940
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
- Reference
- TGA 897/1/1/142/45
Description
Postcards in France, sent in 1940 and 1941, contained pre-printed information.The special instructions to filling up this form says: 'After completing this card, strictly applied for the correspondence between the members of one family, cross the words that are not used. Don't write anything beyond the lines. ATTENTION. All the cards, where information is not only of the family manner, will not be delivered and probably will be destroyed'.
The fields on this pre-printed card are:
"...................................le...194...
...en bonne sante [in good health]...fatigue [tired].
......legerement, gravement malade, blesse [lightly, seriously ill, wounded]
...tue [killed].....prisonnier [prisoner].
....decede [died]....sans nouvelles [with no news].
de [of]....La famille [family]...va bien [is well].
...besoin de provisions [in need of food]....d'argent [money].
nouvelles, bagages [news, luggage]....est de retour a [is back in]
...travaille a [works in]....va entrer [going to enter]...
...a l'ecole de [the school/college of]....a ete recu [was received]
....aller a [to go to].....le..."
Using this pre-printed form, Dubaut manages to give only basic information. For example, 9 December 1940 he informs Lipchitz that 'Rene Longa [is back in] Montauban and [works in] Ingres Museum'.
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
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- Correspondence to and from Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1 (183)
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- Correspondence between Pierre Dubaut and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/142 (40)
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- Preprinted postcard from Pierre Dubaut to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/142/45