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PICTURES PUBLISHING COMPANY • 251 WEST 57th STREET, NEW YORK • TEL. PLAZA 7-6480

April 11, 1950

Mr. Germain Seligman
Jacques Seligmann Galleries
5 East 57 Street
New York 22, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Seligman:
I am grateful to you for taking the trouble to write and explain your situation and point of view in such detail. 
There has obviously been a grievous misunderstanding all around with respect to reviewing the exhibitions of your American Department for it has always been our policy to particularly go out of our way in the matter of extending time so that reviews would not be omitted.
As a factual example of how things actually have been occurring -- to quote the Rico Lebrun exhibition which you yourself mentioned -- my magazine had not even been apprised of the fact that there was going to be any such exhibition, and we only learned of it about a week before the opening of the show when our office was asked to handle the insertion of the newspaper advertisements.
In a great many cases we do our previewing in the studios of the artists and I don't see why we cannot follow a similar procedure with some of your exhibitions, as this would eliminate the problem of having the paintings on your premises at too early a date.
These are details which I am sure can be smoothed out after the misunderstandings on both sides have been cleared up and I want to thank you again for your kind courtesy in frankly stating your position. I shall drop in one day in the interests of seeing that your gallery gets the coverage it deserves in my magazine.
Sincerely yours, 
Charles Z. Offin
CHARLES Z. OFFIN
Editor and Publisher 

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