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FROM A COLLECTOR’S VISION TO A MUSEUM COLLECTION: EUMORFOPOULOS’S LEGACY AT THE BENAKI MUSEUM – TAASA Review March 2017

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This article was originally found in the March 2017 edition of TAASA Review (Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 10).

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George Manginis I n late February 1927, a letter arrived at the London townhouse of Greek-origin British businessman and collector George Eumorfopoulos (1863­1939).

It had been sent from Alexandria in Egypt and was signed by Antonis Benakis (1873­1954), another businessman of the Greek diaspora.

Although they had never met, Benakis had heard from their mutual friend Sir John Home (b...