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Another Geneva figure Beal recognized was the delegation's secretary, Wan Ping-nan, "a heavy, sinister-looking, ' German-educated Chinese whom I had known in Nanking." One member of the delegation was unidentified by the West for the first three days. On the fourth day of the conference, Beal cabled: "I was able to identify this man for the American delegation as Chang Wen-chin, who served Chou as secretary and English interpreter during the Marshall mission and is in the same capacity here...
...then asked how I could get in touch with my old acquaintance Wan Ping-nan, the secretary of the Chinese delegation. Said Chang: "We have a liaison office at the Beau Rivage. A certain Mr. Kuo is in charge...
Says Beal: "I made it a point to visit the Beau Rivage Hotel as soon as possible. But there the certain Mr. Kuo said, 'I don't think I can find Wan Ping-nan...
...Back Room. The revival was due to an enterprising New Zealander named Rex de C. Nan Kivell, who runs the Redfern Gallery. In 1938 he had come across a Dumont landscape in the back room of a Paris gallery. It suggested both the influence of Gauguin and a comparable talent. After the war, Nan Kivell set out to find more of Dumont's work; he roamed all over France, picking up paintings from private collections and the homes of Dumont's friends. In ten years, he succeeded in getting together 54 Dumonts for the current show...
...results last week astounded even Dumont Partisan Nan Kivell. By the time the show was three days old, 25 Dumonts had been sold for a total of ?12,000 ($33,600). Twelve more were reserved by buyers in what turned out to be one of the biggest stampedes for the works of an almost unknown artist London has ever seen. Among the customers: Actors Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson and Richard Attenborough, Collector Lord Ivor Churchill, and Ohio's Toledo Museum...