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European collectors have taken these charmingly unsophisticated mazes to their hearts, but the new affluence has not changed Grim Painter Van Velde. "I am still." says he. "the same lost thing that by the act of painting must reassure itself." Says a Paris friend and patron: "He sleeps, gets up, does his housework, sighs, laments, torments himself, destroys himself, feels remorse, walks, walks a great deal, eats, breathes, laughs, lies on the bed. puts his head in his hands, is lonely, is very lonely...
...referred to one Venezuelan patron who recognized the need for land reform while studying in the U.S., and divided his estate of 20,000 square miles among the tenant farmers. Resulting economic progress has been striking, said Norton...
...patron of the arts, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has made Lorenzo the Magnificent look like a piker. The law, tolerantly enough, lets people give paintings to a museum, take current appraised value as a deduction from taxable income, then keep the paintings in their homes for life (TIME, Nov. 24). But many a giver wants to get an extra measure of tax advantage by inflating the value of the gift. The method is to get an "expert" to pin a false appraisal on the work; the Government has not often questioned the appraisals. In one case, a dealer sold...
...celebrated for love of art, have in their midst a museum envied throughout the U.S. Contemporary artists hold few places in higher esteem than the Albright Art Gallery. And there are few men for whom the dealers of Manhattan. Paris or London have more respect than its principal patron, Seymour H. Knox, 63. A small (5 ft. 5 in.), peppery man who is a crack polo and court tennis player as well as a director of six major companies (Marine Midland Trust Co., F. W. Woolworth), Knox is a born enthusiast-and his chief enthusiasm is modern...
...addition to these luminaries of malefaction, readers may meet such relative unknowns as High-Finance Crook Ernest Hooley, who used part of his ill-got gains to become the patron of twelve ecclesiastical livings for parish priests in rural England, or Leopold Harris, who was so great an expert on fraud that his prison cell became an office where he scrutinized documents for the British authorities. Or there is the Portuguese Bank Note Case of the 1920s, in which a band of smooth, velvety swindlers talked the Bank of Portugal's official printers-a posh British firm-into engraving...