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...much for any one brain to appreciate at a single view: six Rembrandt portraits and eight drawings; five Goyas; eight Monets; 20 Courbets; nine Corots (all figure paintings) ; eleven Manets; five Cezannes; 22 Chinese paintings; 820 Japanese prints; 247 pieces of Japanese lacquer; 182 European prints and etchings???critics grew dizzy, ran out of adjectives. What was obvious to everyone was that this collection for all its beauty and value did not represent, like the Morgan and Widener collections or the Huntington collection in California, the purchases of an intelligent man obediently following the advice of a corps of experts...
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