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let me start by giving you some context.
The National Gallery in London
has around 2,300 paintings
in this
collection—which might
sound a lot, but is a piffling hoard
compared
to the Museum of Modern Art
in New York, which has gathered
almost
200,000 artworks of varying
types and quality.
That is properly impressive.
But it's not a patch on what
you will
find - reportedly
in an unprepossessing,
windowless warehouse complex
in south-west Switzerland.
I say "reportedly" because nobody
actually knows exactly how many
works of art are stored
in the Geneva Free Port,
but its chairman talks
of "a million,"
while the New York Times says
the number is nearer 1.2 million
(including around 1,000 works
by Picasso).
Either way, it is oceanic.
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| Written by Will Gompertz BBC News 12/1/16 |
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