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LOEW'S INCORPORATED STUDIOS
NO.

Tuesday, 9/3/46.

Dear Bob,

Your Gabby wire received and it says nothing except your opinions. What I asked you for was a rock bottom price on the pictures. So what is the difference if Weighardt is influenced by the American Knaths or the Frenchman Bores and Picasso? He is still without his own personality. Or say he is in a state of formation and "becoming" if you want to be kind. For you to talk about his connection with Klee, when I am just now writing in a room in which 31 Klees are hanging, is silly. So please don't waste your telegram space and costs.

Please immediately wire me prices of the purchase of the two pictures, "Man on Park Bench" and "Water Boy". That means the purchase of both of them, but I want to make clear that I am buying "Water Boy" only on your guarantee that, as your wire states, it is wet merely because of poor grade varnish and that it can easily be cleaned and revarnished by an expert restorer. That is going to cost a piece of change, too, so take that into consideration when you set a price on it.

As soon as I hear from you I shall ship back the pictures I don't want, and the bird.

Regards,

Clifford Odets

7942 Hillside Ave.,
L.A., 46, Cal.

P.S. Also, will need a letter from you concerning "Man on Park Bench" since it is unsigned.

NO AGREEMENT OR ORDER WILL BE BINDING ON THIS CORPORATION UNLESS IN WRITING AND SIGNED BY AN OFFICER