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Frits Lugt, "Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes", The Hague, 1956. In March 2010 the
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as an academic field did not exist, he made a difficult choice to focus on this, and gave up his budding art career. He began to collect art with his wife, travelling throughout Europe for this and focussing on masters of the
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