Word: galdeano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parke-Bernet Galleries, fabulously wealthy Belgian Baron Cassel van Doom stumped pompously to every important sale, solemnly focused a pair of high-powered binoculars on everything that reached the auction block. At Gimbels 84-year-old Spanish Millionaire José Lazaro Galdeano, his loud necktie half hidden by a grey spade beard, bought right & left, walked off with one of the season's most expensive buys ($26,742): François Boucher's L'Amour, reputedly posed by Mme. de Pompadour...
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