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...paintings, a Rembrandt Self-Portrait, Cézanne's portrait of Mme. Cézanne in Red, and Picasso's blue-period Mademoiselle B. (Suzanne Bloch) arrived in the nearby port of Santos, Chatô threw a shipboard champagne party to welcome them. In 1952, when Van Gogh's Schoolboy arrived in the capital city of Bahia, Chatô saw to it that school was let out and the new acquisition greeted by thousands of cheering students. Recently Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek turned over the presidential palace to greet another shipment of art, and Brazil...
...years of avid collecting before his death three years ago. the man all Rotterdam knew as "D.G." gathered together so many works that he was forced to hang Rembrandt drawings inside cupboard doors. Other artists in the collection included Rubens, Dürer. Michelangelo, Van Ruysdael. Goya. Titian, Van Gogh and Rodin; among the best works were Jan van Eyck's The Three Marias, Bruegel's Tower of Babel. Experts put the value at more than $25 million...
...Gauguin's Still Life with Apples, bought at auction last year by Greek Shipping Magnate Basil Peter Goulandris for the highest known price ($297,000) ever paid for a modern oil (TIME, June 24, 1957). ¶ Most of the little-seen Stephen C. Clark collection, including Van Gogh's Cafe de Nuit, El Greco's Saint Andrew, Rembrandt's Praying Pilgrim, Cezanne's Card Players...
...seldom shown Siegfried Kramarsky collection, including Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Cachet and Garden of Daubigny, which Hitler ordered sold from German museums because'they were "degenerate." ¶ Goya's Don Vicente Osorio, portrait of a Spanish prince at the age of ten, owned by the Charles S. Paysons. <¶ A whole roomful of first-class Cezannes...
Paintings from the People. With the postimpressionists, the Louvre repeated the same farce, bought not a single Cézanne, Van Gogh or Seurat before World War II. Again it was French collectors, and in one case an American, who came to the rescue. U.S. Collector John Quinn (one of the organizers of Manhattan's famed 1913 Armory Show) gave the Louvre its one major Seurat, The Circus. Paul Gachet, son of the Dr. Gachet who took care of Van Gogh in his last months, since 1946 has given the Louvre eight Van Goghs, half the total...