Letter from Georges Braque, Paris, to Paul Rosenberg, 1947 February 23 : autograph manuscript signed.

Braque is distressed and angry with the arrangements for the return of his paintings from the U.S. Nothing seems to be clear. In a file he has kept about the San Francisco exhibition, he has a letter that Rosenberg sent to Foinet saying that Rosenberg would hand over 7 paintings to Foinet. The receipt that Foinet gave to Braque said there were 10 paintings, including one sold to someone else. Furthermore, there is no mention of a large painting that Braque entrusted to Rosenberg that Rosenberg says has disappeared. Braque has all the papers regarding the agreement for financial responsibility for the return of the paintings from San Francisco that San Francisco is now refusing to pay. [The paintings were sent from San Francisco to Rosenberg, who took over the responsibility for their return. For this reason, SF doesn't want to pay anymore--see earlier letters]. Braque says that Rosenberg must have brought up this issue with the director of the museum in San Francisco, who certainly knew that New York was not the final destination of the paintings. Braque is impatient to recover the paintings. Braque has sent Rosenberg's brother Edmond the receipt Rosenberg requested for a Matisse. (in postscript) Braque speaks of the large painting of a marble table he and Rosenberg were going to exchange for another [for the Museum of Modern Art in Paris]. However, Braque says that Cassou [chief curator of the museum] said the painting to be exchanged was precisely the one Rosenberg had offered to the Museum, in agreement with [Georges] Salle[s].