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COMMONWEALTH 2132
CABLE: CASTANO

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GIOVANNI CASTANO
171 NEWBURY STREET
BOSTON, MASS.

PAINTINGS 
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February 11, 1938

Mr. Robert M. Levy
Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc.
3 East 51st Street
New York City

Dear Mr. Levy:

I want to thank you very kindly for showing me your fine pictures. I would like to have you send me photographs of the Degas paintings and also whatever information you have on them together with prices.

I would like very much to have some nice Italian pictures, perhaps out side of the Catena and the Bellini you have. I personally like the Catena, and I would like very much to have the Tiepolo Madonna and Child.

Naturally, I shall pay for the transportation of these. I shall have my truckman, Mr. Stone, pick them up for me. He had a well-padded truck for paintings and is reliable. You need not crate them. I expect to have the exhibit through the month of March, or a little later after the first of March for a month.

I am having the galleries beautifully decorated for this occasion. I shall have some of the finest Italian Renaissance paintings in Boston for the opening exhibit. Mr. Cunningham of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts is co-operating with me on this, and many of the notable families here who are my clients. So I don't want any mediocre pictures.

With kindest regards, I am

Sincerely,

[[signed]] G. Castano [[/signed]]
G. Castano

GC:MB

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