The end of an era indeed! Glossed over by the NYT: this was a decorated war hero forced to flee his own country by the Nazis who confiscated his property & threw his relatives in concentration camps.
This is a Holocaust story as much as an auction/art history story.
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04/10/2011 5:55:13 PM PDT by
Cincinna
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04/10/2011 5:56:41 PM PDT by
Cincinna
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A bit of a shame he that he felt the need to impress through possessions. His war record alone should have been validation enough for any man he encountered.
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04/10/2011 7:08:05 PM PDT by
tanuki
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