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pasted papers pictures of 1924, an early pencil portrait of his mother by Alexis von Jawlensky and two Gustav Klint sketches from the beginning of this century, one in pencil of the back of a male figure from buttocks to feet lying across fabric and the other, a red pencil drapery study probably covering a seated female figure.

(The Klint drawings were granted as a fee by the acting Director of the New Pinakothek of Munich because I directed a speedy "eleventh hour" re-installation of the big Kraushar - Ströher preponderantly American Collection for him and his apparently baffled staff.)  I am still after a rare August Macke colored pencil abstraction from 1913 which is the only costly item. (One private dealer from Minneapolis was shocked when I revealed that the Schwitters' pair cost two thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars.)  At last, I have the necessary money.  Three consecutive expositions have sold out entirely.  And to complete the coup, impatient Heiner Friedrich patiently sat through the Munich auction cautiously bidding in my behalf - a very kind expression by "The White Tornado" (Carl Andre's appellation for our Heiner the Humdinger). 

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spellings of artists (sometimes wrong) true to original