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be done without injustice to the work & the memory of this fine old Academician that it being in the next show with an explanatory note "unfinished" and that the last stroke were put on at the age of 81 almost at the very end of life. It seems to me that, unless the work shows the moribund it would be a stimulating demonstration of the youth preserving affect of art. Perhaps you might hang it next to one of his earlier most important examples.
Very truly yours,
Charles Vezin
Feb 21-1924 If you have not access to his work I can put you in touch with his relatives.