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3 East 51st. Street,
New York, New York.
March 22nd., 1939.

Dear César:

GAUGUIN: In answer to your letters from the Esplanade, Berlin and from Essen, of March 11th., and 13th., I cabled you yesterday as you requested me to as regards to GAUGUIN.  Having nothing but your description, I am definitely against it, which again doesn't mean that I wouldn't be glad to have a share in it if and when I should see it, but my dear César, as we have discussed so often, I will not with a clear, sound mind anyway, buy a paining which I do not particularly desire just because I don't find the one I want. 

Though you haven't found anything up to today, it doesn't mean that in a week or in a month we might not find the very painting, and at which time it will be too late to buy it because we will have bough all kinds of "dribbles". 

AMANTS-VANGOGH: I shall not buy a painting from the Germans! Why therefore harp back to this topic.  It is almost today committing a crime similar to the munitions markers who during the war sold indirectly, war machinery to Germany.

MONET-VIOLETS: The price of $10,000., is to me ludicrous. 

CARRE: He is not here.  Roland is alone.  I shall try and find out what he has and whether the Degas "Portrait of Duranty" is the one from the Degas sale and a fake (?).