Michel Castaing
See also: Castaing (homonymy)
Michel Castaing , born the March 26th 1918 with Toulouse and dead the January 29th 2004 with Paris of a Lung infection, is a also expert Historien but in Paléographie and bookseller. He is the son of Marcellin Castaing, writer and critic art which, with his wife, the decorator Madeleine Castaing, was one of the principal patrons of the painter Soutine that they regularly lodged of 1928 to 1939. Besides the Metropolitan Museum of New York has a table of this painter representing the “small Madeleine of the decorators”.
During his youth, which it passed in the family property of Lèves, very close to Chartres, Michel Castaing thus on the occasion to often meet Soutine, but also Cendrars, Cocteau, Modigliani, Picasso and Erik Satie. He became bookseller-paleographer thereafter and directed many sales as well abroad as to France; its last sale took place in 1998, at this point in time it dispersed the library of the collector Jacques Guerin, with manuscripts of Rimbaud and Lautréamont.
Source: article obituary of the World of February 5th, 2004.
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