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From: "Michael Rosenfeld" <mr@michaelrosenfeldglry.com<@ENRON [mailto:IMCEANOTES-+22Michael+20Rosenfeld+22+20+3Cmr+40michaelrosenfeldglry+2E com+3E+40ENRON@ENRON.com] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:08 PM To: Shankman, Jeffrey A. Subject: RE: Lewandowski "Industry" Jeff- Can you believe it! What's there not to love. It is the finest mural/painting of its kind I have seen available since the great TH Benton mural cycle purchased by Equitable. Historically and qualitatively, Lewandowski is at the top of the second tier of industrial/precisionist/ social realist painters after artists like Benton and Charles Sheeler. This is a "machine age" masterpiece that epitomizes the glorification of the worker and industry- a message Enron should appreciate. The Lewandowski is a 103" x 67 oil on canvas executed in 1942. It came off the wall of a building in Milwaukee where Lewandowski lived and worked during the 1930s-40s. The condition is quite good with almost no inpainting and a few horizontal crinkles in the canvas. The Greenville County Museum of Art had the Lewandowski on final approval,but they hesitated today and I just committed to buy it as it sat at the museum. The price is $275,000.00 which is higher than any of Lewandowski's other works, but this is monumental and unlike any other work. I hope youw ill agree taht the price is reasonable for a painting of such scale, quality, and historical significance. Lewandowski's good early industrial watercolors of this era, 18" x 24" +/-, have sold for $50,000.00+++. The "Circuit Breakers" painting I own that you have seen at the gallery is priced at $150,000.00 and it is close to being sold. I think Southwestern Bell has a Lewandowski watercolor and I know I recently saw an 1939 industrial Lewandowski painting hanging at the Dallas Museum of Art. The Lewandowski will be shipped to me from the Greenville County Museum in the coming weeks and I hope you and others at Enron can arrange to see it. -Michael < -----Original Message----- < From: Jeffrey.A.Shankman@enron.com [mailto:Jeffrey.A.Shankman@enron.com] < Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:35 PM < To: mr@michaelrosenfeldglry.com < Subject: RE: Lewandowski "Industry" < < < Love, Love, Love. How much? < < -----Original Message----- < From: "Michael Rosenfeld" <mr@michaelrosenfeldglry.com<@ENRON < < [mailto:IMCEANOTES-+22Michael+20Rosenfeld+22+20+3Cmr+40michaelrose < nfeldglry+2Ecom+3E+40ENRON@ENRON.com] < < < Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:41 PM < To: Shankman, Jeffrey A. < Subject: Lewandowski "Industry" < < Jeff, < < What do you think of this Edmund Lewandowski mural painting , < 1942, 103" < x < 67". Incredible! < < See you this weekend. < < -Michael < < < - Industry.jpg << File: Industry.jpg << <
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