The most popular painter in the world today is probably Vincent Van Gogh. The public of today, that honors him, is prone to feel superior to his own public of yesterday, that ignored him, and to forget that a better way to judge its taste is in the respect it pays to the original talents of its own day. The 14 Van Gogh masterpieces on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week had all been painted in the last years of his life. Looking back, it was hard to see how anyone could have been blind to them.
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