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Chatô took off after art like a man possessed, and made the public love it. When the first three 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...
...interesting to note that the number of outraged letters you are receiving on abstract impressionist art is increasing. Why can't the general public recognize that we are never again going back to painting like Rembrandt, Vermeer and Rubens-or even to Watteau, Poussin and Renoir? I commend you heartily on your display of contemporary art, but let's tell your readers the startling fact that it is here to stay...
...Western art still in private hands is the collection amassed by Dutch Businessman (coal) Daniel George van Beuningen. In the 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...
...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...
...only to have Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos raise the bid to more than $3,000,000 (TIME. March 11, 1957). But under Brown's quarterbacking, new pieces have come pouring in (including Fragonard's Mademoiselle Colombe as Venus from Marion Davies, an early Rembrandt and four outstanding Gobelin tapestries from Oil Tycoon J. Paul Getty). Attendance has swelled to over 1,000,000 a year...