May 22, 2014 - Sale 2351

Sale 2351 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 416
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
OROZCO, JOSÉ CLEMENTE. Autograph Letter Signed, "J.C. Orozco," to civil rights leader Arthur B. Spingarn, apologizing that he has been unable to visit and inviting him and friend to his studio when his paintings are returned from exhibition. 1 page, 4to; horizontal folds. With the original envelope, with holograph address and additional signature. "426 W. 22nd St." [New York], 18 March 1929

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". . . I will be very glad and honored in showing you and your friend Mr. Hughes my work, both old and latest. The most of it is now in exhibition at a gallery in Philadelphia and other paintings about New York are going to be exhibited next week in the Downtown Gallery. . . . [A]s soon as I get them I will tell you . . . . I have none just now in my studio. . . ."