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October 16th, 1956 Dear Professor Venturi: On September 20th I was in Rome just for the day, on account of an important appointment and of course called up your home in the hope I would have the pleasure of seeing you. If I understood correctly your servant, as I unfortunately do not speak Italian, I gathered that you were out of town for several days - and thus, I was truly disappointed to leave the City without having had the privilege of a chat with you.- In fact there were two topics I would have liked to discuss with you and failing to have been able to take them up "Viva Voce"- I have to resort to writing about them. The first one you already know as we had previously corresponded about it. i.e: the publication and reproduction of my charming RENOIR portrait I purchased as you will recall upon your recommendation. In your last letter to me, you wrote that you would write such an article in the course of last summer. However, not having heard further from you on the topic, I assume other subjects kept you busy. It occurred to me that a most interesting paper could be written about "Renoir and the Thurneyssen Family". Reproduced beside mine could also be the "Mother and Child" portrait, "The Young Shepherd" of the Providence Museum, and probably one or two others unknown to me. By the way, my own should be mentioned of course as "Private Collection, New York". Have you any particular magazine in mind? The one I would particularly prefer would be the "Burlington Magazine" but failing this one, the "Art Quarterly" of Detroit, would be my second choice. I know how fluently you express yourself in English, but it may be easier and perhaps faster for you to write such an article in French - and were this to be of help - I would gladly see to it that it is translated from French into English. I am writing you at such length on this topic, because it is one which means a great deal to me - the painting never having been published or exhibited anywhere - and you know well enough the United States to understand the reluctance of some people to acquire a painting which has no specific bibliographical background. T.S.V.P. TP -2- I know you are a very busy man........
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