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The Leicester Galleries,
Leicester Square,
LONDON, W.C. 2
7th February 1934

ERNEST BROWN & PHILLIPS Ltd.

DIRECTOR:
CECIL L. PHILLIPS
OLIVER F. BROWN

Telephone: Whitehall 3375
Telegrams and Cables: "Ofort, Lesquare, London."

CLP

Monsieur Germain Seligmann,
Messrs. Jacques Seligmann et Fils,
9, Rue de la Paix,
Paris.

Dear Monsieur Seligmann,

We are very interested in your proposal to hold with us in June of this year a fine exhibition of water-colours by Cezanne, Van Gogh, Lautrec, etc., and we should be glad to be associated with you in such a scheme.

I have talked the matter over with Mr. Brown and we are prepared to hold the exhibition under the following arrangement :-

We will give you one or two rooms as the case may be free of charge. We will advertise the show extensively in the art magazines and in the daily Press, and supply catalogues without any expense to you. The pictures, however, must be delivered to us free of cost and returned after the exhibition also at your charge. As I mentioned to you, there is a duty on frames for which you would be liable but these can be put at nominal prices.

In view of the heavy expenses in running an exhibition, overhead charges, advertising, printing, etc., we suggest that the commission should be 15% on all works over £200, and 20% under this sum. As you probably know, the usual commission charged on living artists' work is never less than 25%, and is sometimes 33 1/3%, whatever the value of the works are.

The only thing in connection with your exhibition that we fear is that you may put too high prices on the pictures for these times, and that sales may be prevented from this cause. We would urge upon you the importance of keeping the prices down to as low a figure as possible, as we should both be interested that the exhibition should be a financial as well as an artistic success.

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