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[[preprinted]] 27 CRAIGIE STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS [[/preprinted]]

March 1, 1953

Dear Mr. Seligmann-

Thank you for your letter about the paintings - we will be glad to see the Chassériau and should be able to reach a decision within a week after its arrival here -

However, we are, if anything, more interested in the Courbet than in the Chassériau.  and it would be of considerable importance to us to be able to look at the two pictures together - would you like to wait a few days until you hear from your museum director and then forward both pictures at once.  We would rather wait the few additional days to be able to see the pictures simultaneously.

Please also send the provenances for each picture at the same time-  Have you been able to establish whether the Courbet is indeed the "Le Bord de la Mer a Palavas" painted in 1854 and mentioned in Léger, p. 55?

Yours-

A.K. Solomon