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SITWELL, SACHEVERELL, 6th BARONET. (1897-1988). British poet, art critic, collector, and architecture scholar. ALS. (“Sacheverell Sitwell”). 2/3p. 8vo. Towcester, March 6, 1949. On his Weston Hall stationery. To the English art critic JOHN RUSSELL (1919-2008). “Forgive me for not answering you before. The best thing you can do is to see Paul Guérin (or his old father if still alive) in Rabat. They own the Moroccan Railway. But it is so difficult to write details. Why not ring me up here – any time between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. – or between 5 p.m. & 11 p.m...” A prolific author and critic who wrote poetry and books about music, architecture, and art, especially from the Baroque period, Sacheverell was one of the trio of famous Sitwell siblings, whose other members included his brother Osbert and his sister Dame Edith Sitwell. During the 1920s, “they were regarded as the spearhead of the avant-garde,” (“Sir Sacheverell Sitwell Dies at 90, Last of Trio of Literary Eccentrics,” The New York Times). Together the brothers, organized the important London Exhibition of French Art, 1914–17, the first to exhibit the works of Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Raoul Dufy, and Henri Matisse in England and also amassed their own impressive collection of modern art. Many of Sitwell’s more than 100 books, written over the course of 60 plus years, were inspired by his love of travel. “In 1987, the writer Philip Purser called Sir Sacheverell ‘'an 18th-century gentleman who has seen all the world’s masterpieces of art, visited its most beautiful countries, read its books, collected its stories, meditated on its curiosities,’” (ibid.). In very fine condition.