BIB_ID
414119
Accession number
MA 9076.196
Creator
Rosenberg, Paul, 1881-1959, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1945 February 26.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 2013.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.9 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Radiogram with letterhead "RCA / Radiogram / R.C.A. Communications, Inc."
Radiogram addressed to "Pablo Picasso / Rue Grands Augustins / Paris."
Telegram includes French message and translation in English with "Translation for the Censor: / The addressee is the well-known painter and a personal friend of the sender. Jo Davidson is the well-known American scuptor [sic], residing in New York, who is also of friend of both the sender and the addressee. Mr. Davidson is also Chairman of the Art Division of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (the important cause referred to)" below the translation.
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.
Radiogram addressed to "Pablo Picasso / Rue Grands Augustins / Paris."
Telegram includes French message and translation in English with "Translation for the Censor: / The addressee is the well-known painter and a personal friend of the sender. Jo Davidson is the well-known American scuptor [sic], residing in New York, who is also of friend of both the sender and the addressee. Mr. Davidson is also Chairman of the Art Division of the Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions (the important cause referred to)" below the translation.
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 Jo Davidson is suprised at not having received a reply to his cable and that Picasso's silence is not understood; urging that Picasso cables along the lines requested over the important cause.
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