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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Plates are beautifully bright and vibrant. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> When the majority of the paintings in this collection was exhibited as a group at the Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth Texas January 23- March 14 1982 many members of the art profession were astonished by these pictures’ uniformly superb quality. Almost all the works could have found a place in any of the great art museums of the Western world. It has perhaps been too frequently repeated that outstanding pictures by the old masters have become so scarce on the art market that today’s col- lectors can no longer rival their counterparts of earlier generations. While this may be largely true the present collection represents a decisive ex- ception both for the paintings’ exceptional quality and for the fact that they were all acquired directly from the art market. It is moreover sig- nificant to note that this is one of a very few major private old master col- lections remaining in the United States and most of the others are already committed to museums. The founder of this collection set out with one ideal in mind: to acquire paintings of the highest order by old masters whose reputations are in- aleriterion was one