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July 27th., 1944.

Dear Léger:

Since receiving your letter of July 13th., I have been out of town, but am back again, as you can see, just for a couple of days.

I was glad to read that you were enjoying your stay in that wild and beautiful country...though you seem to be disappointed at not having painted anything so far - but as we all know, artists cannot work on "order" and inspiration strikes when you least expect it.

Now as regards the painting, as I wrote to you, I wanted to have your consent to sell it at what I considered the lowest figure, and I find it reasonable that $4,000., you should reduce the selling commission to 25%. However, on the [[strikethrough]] xxxxx [[/strikethrough]] of a selling price of $4500., I definitely think that you should maintain the one-third interest we had agreed upon.  This only represents, after all, 10% off the original price of $5000., a reduction which, as you know is to be expected in our business - - to a museum, for instance, we always take off a minimum of 10% from our asking price.

Would you be good enough, when you are at leisure, to confirm this to me, and, with best wishes,

Cordially,

Fernand Léger, Esq.,
c/o General Delivery
Rouses Point, N.Y.

(Germain Seligman)