WE speak too often of American collectors who have French or Italian castles transported stone by stone across the Atlantic," a contrite French art critic wrote last week. Then he added, with an air of surprise: "Robert Lehman, the banker from New York who is currently showing 300 of his treasures at the Orangerie des Tuileries is, truth to tell, an amateur of art with the best of taste." For once the rest of Paris' many-hued press was in agreement ; the Louvre's guest show for the summer was a smash hit and the talk of Paris. Editorialized Carrefour: "We would...
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