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Paris cards.

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3 No 28 '51
4 No. 1 '49

July 22, 1975

TO; EVT
FROM: FVOC
RE: Janis/Facchetti connection

I have found a letter from JP to Janis, probably written in the spring of 1953, authorizing Janis "as my legal agent"  to find out what happened to the 15 works sent to Paris for the March 1952 show. Some of these were sold but never paid for. These all entered mostly European collections and some are still missing. As far as I can reconstruct this, the works included these ten:
1 (328) | Painting 1948 | Modern, Paris
sold 2 (353) | No. 17A, 1949 | Saalfield, Cleveland via Ireland
sold 3 (392) | No. 3, 1950 | Pulitzer/ ex Janis/Ullman
4 (394) | No. 5, 1950 | MOMA
sold 5 (403) | No. 14, 1950 (?) | missing no image
6 (405) | No. 16, 1950 | Rio Museum via Rockefeller
sold 7 (460) | No. 8, 1951 (Black Flowing) | Tokyo via Dotremont
8 (466) | No. 14, 1951 | LKP
sold 9 (471) | No. 19, 1951 | ex Beyler / now Pace [[?]]
10 (475) | No. 23, 1951 (Frogman) | ex Jackson
Five others???
11 (476) No 21, 1951 - where is this?

It is possible the list mentioned by JP is in the Paris 1952 file -- #21 in your box -- but I have no record of it. Have Pat take a look. There is no record that any of these works were paid for -- or in general accounted for, though at least one seems to have returned to the LKP coll. Ask Janis about all this and show him the letter. I reviewed this problem with Madame Facchetti about a year ago but nothing much came of it. She would ask Tapie but Tapie was sick etc. Janis may now more -- if he will tell.