American philanthropist and patron of the arts from New York City (1908-1992) who taught Modern Art at Bryn Mawr College and he was vice director for public affairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was a co-founder of the American Ballet and the School of American Ballet. He collected many paintings and sculptures and donated the bulk of them to museums, especially the Museum of Modern Art. Fascinating DS, signed “Edward M. M. Warburg,” one page, 8.5 x 11, July 13, 1964. Official letter to his executors: “The attached list is a suggested guide to the distribution of my art collection. It will be revised from time to time according to the particular interests of my children, but it should not be considered hard and fast. Any mutually agreed upon variations by them would, of course, be acceptable to me. All that this is is an attempt to allot according to my present estimate of their desires, and to prevent conflicts between them.” Signed below in ballpoint by Warburg. Stapled to the back of this letter is the referenced 12-page list, the first page of which bears a handwritten note from Warburg to his wife Mary signed “EMMW.” The note reads: “If you survive me I would like these three (#4,5,6) objects to be given to Stephen at your convenience as I have indicated in a letter that I have left for him.” The works in question are three pencil drawings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, entitled ‘Le Musicien, M. Dihau,’ ‘Parisian Sketches,’ and ‘Self Portrait.’ Warburg divides his collection between Stephen R. Currier, his wife’s first child, the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Bezalel National Museum of Israel, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Washington, D.C., the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, New York’s Museum of Primitive Art, and his son and daughter David and Daphne Warburg. Some of the more notable artists include: Pablo Picasso, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Salvador Dali, Diego Rivera, Auguste Rodin, Marc Chagall, and Andrew Wyeth. In fine condition.
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