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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ------------------ At 16:56 19/02/98 EST, you wrote: =3E----------------------------Original message---------------------------- =3EWe have a patron who is looking for images of black angels. We have = tried =3Eseveral angel books without success. Suggestions will be much = appreciated. =3E =3EJill McConkey =3EArt Department =3EFree Library of Philadelphia =3E =3E Dear Jill, Perhaps this response will be a bit exotic for you. But I've located a black angel for your patron in Barcelona. He (it?) appears in a fresco composition by Francesc d'Ass=EDs Gal=ED named = =22El Camp de Tarragona=22, painted in the forties, which is in the house of Josep Bartomeu, that was a very alive music center during late forties and the fifties. It was restored in mid-eighties when the building was refurbished to house a Music Documentation Center and was reproduced in a very short edition written and published by the owner in the forties (no date) titled =22El Jard=ED dels Tarongers=22. This black angel is not the main subject, but it is very distinct and characteristic in a corner. It is inspired in the song =22Angelitos = negros=22, which the singer Antonio Mach=EDn had made famous those years. Should your patron be interested, provide me with a fax number and I can contact that center so that they send an image (they don't have Internet access). Llu=EDs Baguny=E0 MUSEU PICASSO Montcada 15-19 08003 Barcelona (Spain) Phone 34.3.3196310 Fax 34.3.3150102 e-mail mpicasso=40lix.intercom.es