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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
BERKELEY DAVIS IRVINE LOS ANGELES RIVERSIDE SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SANTA BARBARA SANTA CRUZ
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720

19 April 1972

Ms. Barbara Chase-Riboud
199, rue de Vaugirard
Paris XVe, France

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Dear Barbara,
Thank you for your letter of 14 April, which I admit has thrown me into some confusion. I am of course relieve -- as we discussed when you were here -- that the show is indeed going ahead for next October, rather than for May (which most certainly would have been almost impossible to accomplish). I have scheduled your show, tentatively, on the basis of what will follow in this letter, from October 4-November 5, 1972, in our Terrace D (the gallery you viewed), which is a five-week showing.

My confusion about your letter stems from the lack of clarity regarding the precise nature and scope of the exhibition, and Berkeley's degree of responsibility within that scope. Therefore, I sat down yesterday with Peter and Ray to clarify our position, both regarding money and staff load problems, and regarding how we each construed the meetings which took place when you were here.

Our conclusions are as follows. We committed ourselves to an exhibition, for which we would raise, by one means or another, $1500 to cover the cost of transportation from New York to Berkeley and return. We understood that this would be the same exhibition that Betty Parsons had, that it would be "ready-made," that is, crated for shipment and consolidated in one location for collection by our shipper. We are in no position, either financially or administratively, to handle the show in any other way. Crating and collection from various sources is extremely expensive, and a burden we could not assume. Your reference to MoMA "lending back" works implies that we would have to supply loan letters and go through the complex routine of requesting loan, getting approval, arranging collection dates, having the works crated, etc. I view it as unlikely we will be able to get a straightforward shipment from New York to Berkeley and back for $1400, but if we have to assume the other method, as noted, it would definitely be impossible.