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Copy sent to Paris 11/21/28

THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
OF THE CITY OF DETROIT

ARTS COMMISSION
RALPH H. BOOTH. PRESIDENT
ALBERT KAHN,
EDSEL B. FORD
CHARLES T. FISHER 
COMMISSIONERS

W. R. VALENTINER.
ART DIRECTOR
CLYDE H. BURROUGHS.
SECRETARY

November 19, 1928.

Mr. Germain Seligmann,
3 East 51st Street,
New York City.

Dear Mr. Seligmann:

I am glad to hear that you are back from Europe, and I hope very much that you can arrange to come to see our Gothic Exhibition, which is really an extraordinarily fine show. You will find that the objects which you kindly let us have make an excellent impression.

Regarding the Bartolommeo [[strikethrough]] Benito [[/strikethrough]] Veneto, from the Tucher Collection, I know the picture very well and think it is a characteristic and splendid example by the artist. Of course, it has not quite the brilliancy of color and the pleasing type of man as in some of his other portraits, but surely such a point of view, which sometimes influences the usual collector over there, would not influence me. It is certainly a great portrait and the painter's reputation is rising.

Yours very sincerely,
W. R. Valentiner

WRV/C

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