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5 East 57th Street
New York 22, New York
October 1st, 1945

Dear Francois:

Thank you for your letter of September 13th received a few days ago.

[[underline]]HALLER[[/underline]] -- Is a sculptor living in Zurich; a man of great talent and for that reason he knows most of the worthwhile people in Switzerland. René met him through some Swiss-American friends whose name I have forgotten. She was born Sulzberger, and they lived in a nice house not far from the Lake, but had no special interest as regards art. I spoke to Haller several times trying to build up business with him without success, but one never knows whether he wouldn't now take advantage of an opportunity he had ignored before. You could find his address easily - I guess - at the Jeu de Paume. Otherwise any Swiss art dealer would tell you.

[[underline]]SIMON LEVY[[/underline]] -- If I am not mistaken he lived many years ago on the Blvd. Malesherbes. I never knew him. He had the reputation of advising some customers.

[[underline]]R. H. WILENSKI[[/underline]] -- 50 Blenheim Terrace, London. This was his address before the bombing. It might have changed since. He is an art critic who wrote numerous books. I paid him a visit in London once. The reception was not very constructive by which I mean that he asked me for photographs to include in his books, but when I spoke of [[strikethrough]]things[[/strikethrough]] ^[[paintings]] that he knew or clients that he might know, there was no response.

[[underline]]LICHTENHAN[[/underline]] -- Basel. I am sorry that I have to ask you to make a little investigation after him. I think he might have been the director of the museum of works of art and tapestries, but I am not sure about it. Anyhow, he was somebody that you should contact again.

[[underline]]CH. BERNOULLI[[/underline]] -- 69 Holbeinstrasse, Basel. I suppose you remember him. He was a friend of Cesar's. I saw him every time I went to Basel and usually dined with him and his wife. A long time before the War he had decorated several houses in Germany, but being an old inhabitant of Basel, he knew everything and everybody there. ^[[but to now has kept most of it to himself]]

[[underline]]MARTINET[[/underline]] -- A dealer in Geneva. I have no idea of his address. He had a client or two years ago. If I recall well one was an artificial perfume manufacturer, a competitor of Givaudan, who also bought works of art on what I think was a much smaller scale. I never was able to visit him (not Martinet but the client). ^[[client's name is Zizmenich]]

[[underline]]PAUL VALLOTTON[[/underline]] -- Picture dealer, Lausanne Palace, Lausanne. They are very nice and usually their paintings came from Paris and from Bernheim-Jeune, but it was not an absolute rule; one could also find other things at their place. You will recall, for instance, a Boudin "Harbor" of very nice quality but painted at dawn or at sunset, which was offered to us in 1938.

[[underline]]G. TANNER[[/underline]] -- Bahnhofstrasse 39, Zurich. The dealer that Ehrlich took advice from. He received a commission from us for that. Afterwards we were naturally on very good terms. He was the one who was selling to Bindschleder at the time president of the Credit Suisse in Zurich. Tanner should normally know paintings that if everything were normal, you would have heard of before he did, but he knows Swiss clients that normally we would not know.

[[underline]]MICHEL BOULAD and LAFFARGUE[[/underline]] -- Both people I never knew and don't know anything about them. All my wishes to you that you find them and do business with them. They might both be dead by now.

[[underline]]MONTPELLIER[[/underline]] -- Should be a nest of things. I wrote to you about Bazille. Normally the director of the Museum in Montpellier should be able to give you precious advice should you go that far. I imagine that Cesar must have tried very hard.
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