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

Robert Genn

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

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