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...To bankroll the project, he sold paintings by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and other artist friends he’d helped through their leaner years....
...very dismissive of them: the mantra has been that we alone are made in God’s image and endowed with reason, while other creatures are dumb brutes — or even, as the influential 17th-century philosopher René...
...James became one of Surrealism’s most generous patrons, as well as a practitioner: he befriended René Magritte and bankrolled Salvador Dalí through some difficult years in the 1930s, when the Catalan was...
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