Art: Refugee Rembrandt

Cinemactor Thomas Mitchell, who last month won an Oscar for playing the best supporting role (in Stagecoach) of 1939, makes good pictures. He buys still better ones. The library of his Riviera (near Hollywood) home has a special niche over the mantel. It is the shrine where Tom Mitchell hangs his latest purchases. In it have hung successively a Rouault Christ, a Whistler view of the Thames, a Modigliani woman with red hair, an Utrillo landscape, an oil sketch of a screaming woman from Picasso's Guernica. Last week it was the Picasso's turn to...

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