Bidspirit auction | REY-VILA JOSE LUIS: (1900-1983)

REY-VILA JOSE LUIS: (1900-1983) - REY-VILA JOSE LUIS: (1900-1983) Spanish Cartoonist, Illustrator and poster Artist. Best known for his Spanish cicil war posters and illustrations. A good A.L.S., ` Jose L. Rey-Vila´, also signed to the envelope, ttwo pages, 4to, Paris, 8th August 1959, to Madame Simon Paravicini, in French. Rey-Vila expects and wishes to meet again his correspondent in Monte Carlo or Paris, and deeply thanks her for her invitation on the French National day a month earlier in Paris, stating in part ` Je garde un souvenir charmant de notre soirée du 14 Juillet à Paris. Je ne saurais trop vous remercier de l´invitation à la tribune du Général de Gaulle que vous m´avez si aimablement transmise et qui m´a permis de voir cette chose merveilleuse qu´est l´armée Française dans toute sa splendeur. J´en ai fait quelques croquis...´ (Translation: ” I have a charming memory of our evening of July 14th in Paris. I cannot thank you enough for the invitation to the tribune of General de Gaulle that you so kindly transmitted to me and which allowed me to see this marvelous thing that is the French army in all its splendor. I made some sketches of it...”) Accompanied by the original envelope in Rey-Vila´s hand, postmarked and stamped. VG