Contents 1 ''I saw a new monkey'': family and friends 2 ''Like a sleepwalker'': artist to artist 3 ''Your book on witchcraft'': gifts and greetings 4 ''The best I have painted'': patrons and supporters 5 ''Hey beautiful'': love 6 ''My 1244 guilders'': professional matters 7 ''Send my green overcoat'': travel 8 ''Hope is the Pallet'': signing off 1 ''I saw a new monkey'': family and friends Michelangelo Buonarroti to his nephew, 1550 Zhu Da to Fang Shiguan, c.1688-1705 Francisco Lucientes y Goya to Martin Zapater, 2 August 1794 William Blake to William Hayley, 12 Mar 1804 Edward Burne-Jones to Daphne Gaskell Beatrix Potter to Noel Moore, 8 March 1895 Camille Pissarro to his wife, Julie, 25 Oct 1896 Gustav Klimt to Luwig M. König, early 20th century Marcel Duchamp to Suzanne Duchamp, 15 Jan 1916 Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant, c.1916 Alexander Calder to Agnes Rindge Claflin, 6 Jun 1936 Salvador Dalí to Paul Eluard, c.1938 Piet Mondrian to Kurt Seligmann, c.1940 Lucian Freud to Stephen Spender, 1940 Dorothea Tanning to Joseph Cornell, 3 Mar 1948 Philip Guston to Elise Asher, 17 Aug 1964 Jasper Johns to Rosamund Felsen, 1 Jan 1970 2 ''Like a sleepwalker'': artist to artist Sebastiano del Piombo to Michelangelo, 29 December 1519 Benvenuto Cellini to Michelangelo, 14 March 1559 John Constable to John Thomas Smith, Jan-March 1797 Edouard Manet to Eugene Maus, 2 Aug 1880 Claude Monet to Berthe Morisot, 1888 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh, 1 October 1888 Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin, 17 Oct 1888 Francis Picabia to Alfred Stielglitz, 8 Nov 1920 Pablo Picasso to Jean Cocteau, 1916 David Alfaro Siqueros to Jackson Pollock, Sandy Pollock and Harold Lehman, Dec 1936 Mark Rothko to Lee Krasner, 16 Aug 1956 Robert Smithson to Enno Develing, 6 Sept 1971 Marina Abramovic and Ulay to Mike Parr, June 1978 Mike Parr to Marina Abramovic and Ulay, 27 July 1978 David Hockney to Kenneth Tyler, 14 Sept 1988 3 ''Your book on witchcraft'': gifts, greetings, requests Wang Zhideng to a friend, Ming Dynasty, early 17th century George Grosz to Erich Hermann, c.1940 Leonora Carrington to Kurt Seligman, 1948 Joseph Cornell to Marcel Duchamp, 1955-68 Joan Miró to Marcel Breuer, 26 Aug 1963 Yoko Ono and John Lennon to Joseph Cornell, 23 Dec 1971 Yayoi Kusama to Donald Judd, 26 Jun 1974 Cindy Sherman to Arthur Danto, 8 Mar 1995 4 ''The best I have painted'': patrons and supporters Leonardo da Vinci to Ludovico Sforza, early 1480s Guercino to unknown recipient, 1636 Peter Paul Rubens to Balthasar Gerbier, April/May 1640 William Hogarth to T.H.

, 21 Oct 1746 Winslow Homer to Thomas B. Clarke, 4 Jan 1901 Mary Cassatt to John Wesley Beatty, 5 Sept 1905 Pierre-Auguste Renoir to Dr Fritz Thurneyssen, 24 Jun 1908 Egon Schiele to Hermann Engel, September 1911 Alfred Wallis to Jim Ede, 9 Feb 1934 Jackson Pollock to Louis Bunce, 2 Jun 1946 Eva Hesse to Dr Helene Papanek, 6 Apr 1959 Cy Twombly to Leo Castelli, 1963? Joseph Beuys to Monsignore Otto Mauer, 16 Nov 1966 Agnes Martin to Samuel J. Wagstaff, late 1960s? Roy Lichtenstein to Ellen H. Johnson, Jul 1969 Judy Chicago to Lucy Lippard, 1973 Nancy Spero to Lucy R. Lippard, Feb 1976 5 ''Hey beautiful'': love Jean-Jacques-Dominique Ingres to Marie-Anne-Julie Forestier, 18 Oct 1806 Auguste Rodin to Camille Claudel, c.1886 Camille Claudel to Auguste Rodin, 1890/91 Jules Olitski to Joan Olitski Ad Reinhardt to Selma Trieff, 18 Feb 1955 (postmark) Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera, 1940 Paul Nash to Margaret Odeh, 9 Dec 1913 Georgia O''Keeffe to Alfred Stieglitz, Summer 1918 Alfred Stieglitz to Georgia O''Keeffe, 9 Jun1918 Jean Cocteau to Jean Debordes, early 1929 Ben Nicholson to Barbara Hepworth, early 1930s Eileen Agar to Joseph Bard, 1920s Joan Mitchell to Michael Goldberg, c.1950 6 ''My 1244 guilders'': professional matters Rembrandt van Rijn to Constantijn Huygens, February 1639 Nicolas Poussin to Paul Scarron, c.1650 Joshua Reynolds to Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, 16 Oct 1773 Henry Fuseli to unknown recipient, 29 Sept 1823 Gustave Courbet to the Marquis de Chennevières, Apr 1866 John Tenniel to Lewis Carroll, 1 Jun 1870 John Linnell to James Muirhead, 16 July 1873 Aubrey Beardsley to Frederick Evans, c.

1893 James McNeill Whistler to Frederick H. Allen, 6 June 1892 or 1893 Henry Moore to John Rothenstein, 9 Nov 1941 Naum Gabo to Marcel Breuer, 17 Apr 1938 Andy Warhol to Russell Lynes, 1949 Anni Albers to Gloria Finn, 15 Mar 1954 7 ''Send my green overcoat'': travel Albrecht Dürer to Willibald Pirckheimer, 7 February 1506 John Ruskin to an unknown recipient, 26 Jul 1853 Edward Lear to Hallam Tennyson, 8 Sept 1885 Georges and Marcelle Braque to Paul Dermée and Cartolina Goldstein, 17 Aug 1918 Berenice Abbott to John Henry Bradley Storrs, 19 July 1921 Max and Mathilde Beckmann to Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, 25 Sept 1928 Francis Bacon to Erica Brausen, 22 Feb 1951 Lee Krasner to Jackson Pollock, 22 July 1956 Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell to Hans Hoffman, 7 Jul 1958 Carl Andre to Eva Hesse, 17 April 1970 Ana Mendieta to Judith Wilson, 20 Aug 1980 8 ''Hope is the Pallet'': signing off Thomas Gainsborough to Thomas Harvey, 1788 Paul Cézanne to Emile Bernard, 21 September 1906.