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			T.F. Chen Cultural Center Post-Van Gogh Retrospective: Happy Art Collectors Dr. T.F. Chen Imaginative Art Dealer (I) Oil on canvas 50" x 72" 1987
			Collection: Thomas Wee's Gallery, Taipei Van Gogh: "Portrait of Pere Tanguy,"(1877), Musee Rodin, Paris Leger: "La Grand Dejeuner,"(1921), Museum of Modern Art, New York Picasso: "Guitar, Bottle, and Fruit-Dish,"(1921), private collection, Paris Matisee: "Les Plumes Blanches,"(1919), Minneapolis, Institute of Art Van Gogh: "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe," private collection Bernard Buffet: "Rascasse et Broc Bleu,"(1949)
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	Pere Tanguy again leaps forth from Chen's conscious outpouring. Composed like a figure from Fernand Leger (1881-1955), who once called he handling of space and volume as tube-ism, Tanguy takes tea with two women from a cup that looks like a piece of machinery. In this case Tanguy represents a mystical art dealer who has under contract Van Gogh, Picasso, Leger, Matisse, and Bernard Buffet. [Tanguy represented Van Gogh; Daniel Henri Kahnweiler had Picasso and Leger - and regretted all his life he did not have Matisse; Matisse belonged to Bernheim; and Buffet's work can be found with various dealers.] Van Gogh is represented by the self portrait in the upper left, Matisse by the woman wearing white feathers in the upper right, and Buffet by the figures on the white table top, lower right. by Lawrence Jeppson