- Title
- Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son about the sale of Schwitters’ work, ‘Paper Clouds’ and interest from the Pinacotheca Gallery in obtaining some of Schwitters’ work
- Date
- 8 February 1949
- Description
- A copy of this letter was forwarded on to Edith Thomas by the Museum of Modern Art with an attached letter discussing the interest of Miss Rose Fried of the Pinacotheca Gallery in obtaining Schwitters' collage work held at the Museum.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Edith Thomas's son, Geoff Thomas, in 1995.
- Reference
- TGA 9510/3/1/34
Archive context
- Material relating to Kurt Schwitters compiled by his English companion, Mrs Edith 'Wantee' Thomas mostly after the artist's death in 1948 TGA 9510 (139)
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