BIB_ID
414114
Accession number
MA 9076.192
Creator
Penrose, Roland, Sir, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1971 April 27.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 2013.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.8 x 17.7 cm
Notes
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "11A Hornton St., London W.8 / Western 0115."
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
Saying that he is revising his book "Picasso: his life and work" which is to be republished by Penguin this fall and is requesting if he can use the story about Rosenberg's mother being painted by Picasso for the new edition; adding that he is enclosing the story for his review and if he can assist him with the name of the fashionable Parisian painter that his mother admired and Picasso could imitate.
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