Letter from Arnold Skutezky to Egon Schiele, 22nd Feb. 1917

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ARNOLD SKUTEZKY
RAIGERN.

R.[aigern] 22nd Feb. [1]917

Dear Sir!

Thanking you for the drawings [crossed out: me] I have received through the kind mediation of Director Dr. [Franz Martin] Haberditzl, I am hereby sending you the sum of 150 c. [crowns] by money order. Both drawings delight me very much but it was Difficult for me to choose because I would have liked to own the female portrait in color as well as the one I kept in chalk and yet I wanted to avoid taking two portraits
because I wanted to have a figure among your drawings as well. Maybe you could retrospectively comply with my request and grant me a discount on the female head so I could purchase 3 drawings at 200 c. At any rate, I am very pleased to have made your acquaintance for now and through your works and I hope we will get to know each other in person.

Respectfully and
sincerely yours,
Arnold Skutezky

to avoid any confusion I will describe the portrait I am considering more closely: It is executed in color and depicts, as Dr. H. [Haberditzl] told me, the likeness of your wife.