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FOUNDATION MARTIN BODMER [[image]] BIBLIOTHECA BODMERIANA
CH-1223 COLOGNY-GENÉVE • TÉLÉPHONE 022/35 23 70 • CHÈQUE POSTAL 12-13485 • BANQUE: CRÉDIT SUISSE GENÉVE

Cologny, July 11, 1972

Mr. Germain Seligman
5 East 57th Street
NEW YORK, N.Y. 10022
U.S.A.

Dear Mr. Seligman,

In answer to your very kind letter of May 26 concerning the drawings of the Bodmer collection, I can now propose you another drawing. Unfortunately there are no 16th century drawings for sale, but I can offer you a very nice Toulouse-Lautrec. It is a portrait of Oscar Wilde made as a sketch for the famous painting. The drawing is in black chalk and neasures 130 : 130 mm, and belonged to the friend of Toulouse, the "modiste" Renée Vert.

Apparently the drawing is unpublished, which is another very important fact for this drawing. Unfortunately I have no photography of this drawing but if you might be interested I can have send you one. 

I also have been charged by Mrs. Bodmer to sell 2 paintings :

1. Hieronymus - Les épreuves de Job. (Bois transposé sur toile, 1919). Dated 1514 and with the monogram "B" The painting was exposed in Venice, Biennale 1954 and in Bordaux 1957.

2. Pieter Brueghel - Dutch Proverbs. Painted on wood, 114 : 164 cm. Fischer (Lucerne) sale 1963

The prices for the items mentioned above are:

Toulouse-Lautrec : $ 5.000.--

Bosch : $ 60.000.--

Brueghel : $ 30.000.--

If you might be interested in these items I would be very glad to let me know, especially as I will be on holidays in August.

Yours very sincerely, 

J. Janssen

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