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Saturday January 22nd 1966

Mr. Lane Faison Jr.
Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, Massachusetts

Dear Mr. Faison:

! Tanks for your inquiry of January 10th about prices of Joseph Cornell's collage in the current exhibition. I have taken so long to reply because until yesterday afternoon nothing in the show was for sale!

As you may know, Mr. Cornell is somewhat eccentric and indefinite when it comes to disposing of his work, and he could not bring himself to quote prices.

Only one of the collages in the catalogue is for sale,:
Puzzle of the Reward #1. I enclose a photograph of it. This collage is reproduced in tomorrow's (Sunday) Times in an essay by Hilton Kramer on Cornell's work. The price is $1000. --net. and is offered of course subject to prior sale.

Yesterday, also, Mr. Cornell brought in another collage related to the above. It is, properly speaking, Puzzle of the reward #2 (pace the catalogue which is inaccurate). I have not had time to photograph it, but will send you a print as soon as possible. It has the same dark brown growing and doves above but lacks the cubes and thimble in the foreground. The price is the same as well as the sight size - 11½" x 8½". In other words about the size of the print enclosed. As with most Cornell efforts, the backs are interesting as well as the fronts.

Sincerely,

Robert Schoelkopf