A slightly balding somewhat ordinary looking man wearing a tweed jacket was seated at a piano, touching his fingers deftly to the ivory keys, playing a piece that Illya Kuryakin found instantly familiar to him.
There were other things he recognized as well, paintings surely by Degas, Matisse, Chagall...Picasso, Kokoschka, Renoir to name a few... many had gone missing during the war and were suspected of having been stolen by the Nazis. The U.N.C.L.E. agent had not seen such a treasure trove of artwork since ‘The Recollectors Affair.”
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