that if Woollcott would "furnish incontrovertible evidence that I ever invited you to 'examine' our pictures, or even to visit our gallery, we shall give you, free of charge, the most important painting in our collection."
Woollcott's Waterloo
The painting Barnes had in mind for this clincher was Seurat's The Models, for which the French Government once offered him half a million dollars.
Woollcott did a graceful minuet around the doctor's challenge. "I am afraid it will be impossible for me to continue this correspondence after I have left Philadelphia," he replied. "Perhaps that is just as well because inevitably you would grow more....
