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K.E. MAISON 48, CLIFTON HILL LONDON N.W.S TEL: MAIDA VALE 3637

Mr. Germain Seligman
5 East 57th Street
NEW YORK 22 N.Y. 

29th Jan. 1963.

Dear Mr.Seligman,

Many thanks for your letter. As you know, I do not normally make offers by mail but wait patiently for the few foreign dealers who pay me one or two visits a year. However, by the same mail with your letter I received three of the four prints I am enclosing, from my photographer: this looked like a coincidence which demanded action.

The four drawings are all in mint state, neither cleaned nor glued on to a backing:

1. Camille Pissarro A long-legged boy seated on the ground. Black chalk 19.8 x 30.5 cm. Illustrated in John Rewald, Pissarro (n.d.) Paris, Ed.Braun & Cie. ("Collection des Maîtres"). 
£325 - $910. -

2. Eugène Delacroix Sheet of studies. (Strong,clear) pencil on light blue paper. 25.5 x 40.7 cm. The E.D> stamp [[strikethrough]] d [[/strikethrough]] covered by the mount when the photograph was taken.
£380 - $1065. -

3. Simon Vouet Three Putti. Black chalk, slightly heigt-ened with white, on cream-coloured paper. 19.7 x 24.2 cm. Study for a detail of an unpublished pict-ure in the possession of Charles Sterling.
£325 - $910. -

4. Giov.Batt.Tiepolo Head of a Horse between two male heads. Soft blackchalk. "Tiepolo 9" is probably autograph. 28.6 x 40.2 cm. This drawing was used as a cartoon for a detail on the left side edge of the "Anthony and Cleo-patra "freco in the Palazzo Labia. Coll.de Burlet, Schaeffer Gallery, Richard S. Davies (who gave it in part-exchange to a Swiss dealer)
£1.500-4200. -

Kindly return photographs of the drawings which are of no interest to you. 

Sincerely yours,
KE Maison