You might have thought that alter spending a lifetime collecting Chinese art a man of 74 would be content. Not so Mr. George Eumorfopoulos. He is a man who can't stop collecting. "I can't get away from it," he confessed to a "News Chronicle" repre sentative recently at his Chelsea home, thrown open today to the public, "I shouldn't be happy if I weren't collecting something that appeals to me. I have been at it since I was a boy."
And to some effect. Three years ago he sold his world-famous collection of Chinese and Oriental works of art for £100,000 to the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum. At public auction, according to experts, the treasures would have fetched £500,000.
But Mr. Eumorfopoulos, a retired merchant banker born in England of Greek ancestry, found it difficult to reconcile himself to their loss. "I missed them," he said. ey left bare patches on the walls." So he went on collecting, modern as well as ancient work, and was happy again Slim, with' him, ascetic features, and surprisingly active, he took the "News Chronicle" representative over the house where there were no longer bare patches on the walls.
He led the way into room after the 40th anni versor; of his first Eng-room and the farther he went the lish performance. more the "News Chronicle" repreterday he said that he still sentative got out of his death, practised the piano for three hours "Anyhow," Mr. Eumorfopoulos s ave seemed happy. Again he was living, lad to reduce my concerts from about s he has always liked to live, in a 100 to 70a year, and Ihave tem-museum. Once more his house was porarily gi n up composing," he full of treasures going back to 1400 said "I never teach musi because B.C. He passed from one to the other my wife tells me I am a bad teacher with the tireless enthusiasm of the Likes Jazz collector Today you can see what ma him 1 prefer jazz to so-called good happy. and you can also, by paying modern music; 1 appreciate Elgar, 2s. 6d. for the privilege, help the Arnold Bax, and Sibelius, but the last Relief Fund of International Student great composers were Strauss and Service which aids Chinese students Debussy.
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