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A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
Artist
Robert Douglas Genn
Difficult
Art
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May
Mystique
Selling
Price
High

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