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Copy for Mr. Trevor

August 11th., 1936.

Dear Mr. Howard:

Your very kind and interesting lines fo July 27th., have reached me today in Paris, and I hasten to answer them. I can well understand your desire of providing an extra impetus to the museum by holding some temporary shows during September, October and November.

As you probably know, it has always been my firm's policy to cooperate with museums to the greatest possible extent, but I fear this time that the closeness of the date you mention and the plans we have already made for these coming few months, will prevent me from carrying out for you what I would have liked so much to do.

The exhibitions actually on in America, as well as in Europe, together with the shows we have planned in our own galleries, coupled with the fact that we must have certained paintings available which we have promised to show to public institutions and some of our private clients, make it necessary to have on hand either in Paris or New York, the very paintings I would like to send you, and this just at the time you would want them. Consequently I am handicapped in helping you out.

However, we could loan you up to around the 15th. or 20th. of October, two paintings by BRAQUE, and a very charming painting by RENOIR representing a Girl with a Tambourine. The latter was painted i 1881, at the time of Renoir's trip to Italy, when he stayed in Naples and Venice.

Ifamouriting my New York firm by same mail, requesting them to put these three paintings at your disposal, under the proviso, as said above, that they will be returned to us aroud October 20th.

If you will communicate with Mr. Clyfford Trevor in New York on this subject, he will be only too pleased, I know, to hear what your wishes are.

Yours very sincerely, 



Richard Howard Foster, Esq.,
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts,
Dallas, Texas.              (Germain Seligmann)

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