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...bronze cat (with the remains of the sacred original coffined inside)-also take up little room. Nonetheless, the National was sporting (for an indefinite period) the most important private collection of Egyptian art in the world-on loan from the art collection of Armenian Millionaire Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian...
Tall, pale octogenarian Gulbenkian is best known to Americans for the operations in Near Eastern oil (TIME, Nov. 15) which have made him one of the world's richest men. Impassive and aloof as the statuettes he collects, Gulbenkian neither confirms nor denies the stories that describe him variously as a descendant of Armenian kings, an ex-Turkish rug peddler, a lace merchant. He will say little more about his tastes in art, except that he has been collecting old masters, sculpture, rare books, Greek coins and Persian rugs since early in the century...
...lives in Lisbon's tiny, luxurious Hotel Aviz, also has a palatial home in Paris and another in London. He has no art scouts, does all his purchasing by himself, or on the advice of a few trusted dealers. National Gallery officials would say nothing of Gulbenkian himself last week except that he was "extremely modest" and "a real connoisseur": one of the conditions of the loan was that there must be no personal publicity from the gallery on the subject of Calouste Gulbenkian...
...London's choosy, space-proud National Gallery has had 18 old masters from the Gulbenkian collection since...
...Lisbon, where he now spends most of his time in his luxurious suite in the Hotel Aviz, Gulbenkian pronounced himself well pleased. Though the agreement will run through 1967, Gulbenkian expected to be around to enjoy it; his father lived to be 110, his grandfather...