Letter from Georges and Irène Rouault, France?, to Paul Rosenberg, 1946? : autograph manuscript signed.

He asks if, in sending the information requested by his daughter, Rosenberg can find out about Winttenborn and Company: Books on the Fine Arts, in New York, which is requesting to translate Rouault's book Soliloques [Soiloquies, 1944], which was published in Neuchatel, [Switzerland], by Ides et Calendes, poetry and prose by Georges Rouault with a preface by Claude Roulet. He says that a translation is always difficult and tricky, especially one of his style of writing, which is picturesque or baroque. He would like to know the conditions of the translation. He's concerned about color reproductions of his work, especially if done at a distance, when he can't be there to supervise the printing. He says there are two nudes and a clown in Soliloques that are too black, and he does not want to see them reproduced. He says that Rosenberg is more aware of the conditions of such an operation than he is. And he asks if they have a good translator. He doesn't think he'll be able to make it Paris in July. The sad, endless trial with the heirs of Ambroise Vollard will be in May-June. He has been told perhaps falsely that Rosenberg is in difficult with Vollard's heirs as well. Since he is 75, the last 6 years since 1939 have counted doubly for him. He says that there are 600 signed works and 800 unsigned works by him at M[adeleine] de Galea's [his alleged mistress] and with Lucien Vollard [Vollard's brother] for which the financial arrangements have not been finalized. The trial is about the moral right of the artist for his works. He asks Rosenberg to tell him if he is in a difficult situation with the [Vollard] heirs as well, with all the lies and confusion concerning his works.