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ILEANA'( FOLDER

SALON DE MAI
Président : GASTON DIEHL
COMITE DIRECTEUR :
MM. ADAM, ALECHINSKY, BUSSE, CESAR, COURTIN, COUTAUD, COUTURIER, DAYEZ, DELAHAYE, DESPIERRE, DODEGNE, ETIENNE-MARTIN, GILI, GILLET, LABISSE, LOBO, MARCHAND, MESSAGIER, PIGNON, REBEYROLLE, SINGIER, STAHLY, VIEILLARD — Secrétaire générale : JACQUELINE SELZ

Siège social :
8, rue Victorien-Sardou, Paris-XVI.
AUT. 44-01

May I965

Dear Mr. Jasper Johns,
For a very long time now we have invited American painters to the Salon de Mai, and we were among the first in Paris to make way for their works. Last year we made the young American school the focal point of the Salon. This year again, we were at pains to hang Jasper Johns, Rosenquist and Rauschenberg, side by side — in conformity with the mish expressed last year by Mrs.  Eleana Sonnabend — in a place which we know from experience to be advantageous, in a group of rooms in which the young American and European schools were combined.

We may assure you that the Committee made a special point of ensuring that you were presented logically and in very favourable conditions.

Despite this, Mr. Sonnabend, whom, as a gesture of friendliness, we had allowed to enter the exhibition rooms before the private view to enable him to check the material presentation of your canvases — which, as a matter of principle, is a favour we do not

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