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LEO CASTELLI 

11 June, 1964

Dear Mr. Castelli, 

All is quiet on the New York scene. Except for the Castelli Gallery. We have had quite a number of people in. Not crowded, but pleasantly peopled. 

1) Boston picked up. I replaced Emperor Hudson for the Colnel Splendid that was mistakenly sent to Venice ( and what a nice mistake that is for us !! Maybe we will sell it to Power after all.) Frank decided to replace Ileana Sonnabend,, which was too enormous to fit into the trunk with out being damaged ( and I told him that if there was the slightest possibility of the painting getting hurt not to let it go ) with one of his earlier black pieces , Club Onyx. All the pieces were safely taken from your apartment, and I phoned Boston to tell them of all the changes. 

2) Someone apparently stone the fan from Pantomine, which Ti-Grace was unable to recover, after much investigation. She writes that they will try to replace the fan or compensate us financially. I wrote her we had the painting in storage and would get in touch with her as regards the fan. The whole tings was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Someone broke a window crept in and unscrewed the fan, zipping off with it into the night. Philadelphia really does not strike one as the center of a large Art theft gang!!

3) I spoke to Alan, and you will probably be entirely au courant by the time this reaches you. Sam Hunter was absolutely adorable. He didn't think for 2 seconds. ' Of course I'll be available. I'll go tomorrow if they want me. ' Dorothy Miller on the other hand was very cautious. She hemmed and hawed, stalled for time and then after talking to Barr, decided there were too many galleries left in the Museum that had to be set up for her to leave New York. Can you imagine anyone not jumping at the chance to be a judge ? Oh my!

4) Kiesler phoned and was very happy about this piece, the special stand etc... I am to go and see them some evening, and Ivan has his instructions to be a good boy and call them up. 

5) A Mr. Gallagher from the U. of Arizona dropped by. He is a very strange man. Forthright, tactless and very interested in Rauschenberg. He asked the price of Trapeze. And kept saying how the South West should see American Art. He talked a great deal about some air-conditioned Museum 

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