BIB_ID
413450
Accession number
MA 9076.31
Creator
Delaunay, Robert, 1885-1941, sender.
Display Date
Paris, France, 1919 September 18.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 2013.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 24 x 20.9 cm
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery printed "Paris."
Part of a large collection of letters from French artists primarily to the art dealer Paul Rosenberg. Items in the collection are cataloged individually as MA 9076.1-227.
See also MA 3500, a related collection that also comprises letters from French artists and writers to Paul Rosenberg, which was acquired by the Morgan as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg in 1980.
Part of a large collection of letters from French artists primarily to the art dealer Paul Rosenberg. Items in the collection are cataloged individually as MA 9076.1-227.
See also MA 3500, a related collection that also comprises letters from French artists and writers to Paul Rosenberg, which was acquired by the Morgan as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg in 1980.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 2013.
Summary
Writing to inquire about value of the Henri Rousseau painting "Le Pont de Grenelle"; mentions its exhibition with the [Société des Artistes] Independants, its reproduction in a Dutch book devoted to Rousseau, and in an exhibition at the Bernheim gallery; notes that it was worth 19000 Fr in 1913-14 and that It is a well known painting by Rousseau reproduced in a book by White; saying that he is also writing to Stockholm for the same thing; (in a postscript) mentions that the price in Stockholm was 19,000 with the change in currency, but he thinks it is a painting meant for a collection in America, England, Spain, for a museum or private collection.
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