MONDRIAN (Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known as Piet). Autograph letter signed "Piet Mondrian", in French, [to Alfred Roth]. [Paris], "rue du Départ 26", "sept. 2 pp. in-8. "Mon très cher ami, JE SUIS TRES CONTENT que vous avez du travail et que vous pensez à mon art et à moi, et QUE VOUS AIMERIEZ AVOIR UNE TOILE DE MOI PRES DE VOUS. I would have sent you one already, if various exhibitions weren't taking all my work. I've sent a painting to Barcelona, 4 to Zürich, where a major exhibition is soon to open. And in Amsterdam, there are two exhibitions, one in Oct. and one in Nov. Maybe I'll have one painting left in Nov. to send you. PLEASE WRITE TO ME IF YOU PREFER BLUE AND YELLOW, WHITE AND GRAY OR RED, A LITTLE BLUE AND YELLOW AND WHITE AND GRAY. The latter works (with red) are more "real", the others more spiritual, more or less. And if I can send it to you postage due, because I haven't sold for a long time. The official price is now 3000 franç[ais] at least. but for you, 1500 fr. is fine. I sold some works by Stam [avant-garde Dutch architect, town planner and decorator Mart Stam] in the spring in Frankfurt: the painting you liked so much he bought himself for 3000 fr. He's making some money now and it's very kind of him to think of me!..." ALFRED ROTH (1903-1998) WAS ONE OF THE MAIN MODERNIST ARCHITECTS OF HIS TIME: through his buildings, his publications (La Nouvelle architecture, 1940) and his teaching, he was the central figure of the Neues Bauen.