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The market for Chinese contemporary art has developed at a feverish pace, becoming the single fastest-growing segment of the international art market. David Anderson Gallery, New York. Arshile Gorky: Drawings: 1929 – 1934. 3 February – 1 March 1962. Catalogue with excerpts by Arshile Gorky. Frederick A. Sweet, Three American Paintings,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 39, 1 (Jan. 1945), 5-7, ill. The relevance of these passages of late antique monastic hagiography and the later portrait paintings from Apollo’s monastery to early imperial customs may not be immediately evident, in part because modern scholars continue to battle the stereotyping of Coptic monks as poor illiterate peasants that had begun to emerge already in the fourth century. We need look no further than Athanasius’s strategic mischaracterization of Antony as barely lettered and Jerome’s similar mischaracterization of Coptic simplicity in the preface to his translation of the Pachomian , e.g., … Read the rest