His pictures and chess are Goetz' main interests studio over the Cafe du Dome, where an Italian expert pro-nounced it a Tintoretto which had disappeared a hundred years ago. Goetz lent the masterpiece to The New York World's Fair in 1939, and thus it was safe when war broke out. He followed the picture over here, became an American citizen and, when the war was ever, found that the rest of his collection in Paris had been saved by friends who had taken the paint-ings off the stretchers and hidden them in a remote warehouse. Goetz started a life of collecting when, in his youth in Brussels, he bought two paintings by Dirk Bouts for about $12. He abandoned his own career as a painter and searched the byways of Europe for paintings undiscovered and unsung. The tall spare man with the Gothic face lost what by the time of World War I had become a fine collection. In the spring of 1922 he sat in the famous auction room of the Hotel Drouot in Paris and watched his paintings-75 in all-go towar
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