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A TITIAN PAINTING PAID 19 MILLION FRANCS
LONDON, April 4. A painting by Titian, depicting Venus and Adonis, has just been purchased in London from Earl Spencer by an American collector from Philadelphia, Joseph Widerer, for the price of 1 million dollars, or more than 19 million francs. Mr. Widerer, who owns one of the finest collections of paintings in the world, will leave his precious riches to the City of Philadelphia in his will.
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