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...inside of a large packing case. Investigating, they uncrated a distinguished-looking, middle-aged man packed in a stack of paintings. Hysterical from being stood upside down for seven hours, the man was taken, gabbling incoherent French, to the Jervis Street Hospital. There he identified himself as Maurice Carassus de Laboujac, 40, a French painter who, unable to secure a passport visa, had shipped himself as freight to his own Dublin exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Personal Appearance | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

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