Since most of the world-acknowledged masterpieces of painting are now safely behind museum walls, the few prizes that remain for big art hunters are all tagged, numbered and precisely located. A sudden blank space on the wall of one of Europe's castles, cháteaux or palaces does not go unnoticed for long. Last week word quietly leaked out that what may be the prime catch of the years was quietly bagged last December by Manhattan Financier and Collector Robert Lehman, whose one-collection show at the Louvre's Orangerie last summer was the hit of...
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