European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. September 23. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 a Sleuth with an Eye for Art by Randall Hackley associated Pressa it dealer Richard Trigon does t have to Wear a tattered  or tiptoe through Dingy galleries to be one of the lop sleuths in the missing masterpiece business. Instead the tanned millionaire scans auction Cata logs to ferret out what could be significant discoveries of Fine Art. Feigen. Who began collecting Art at age 10 in Southside Chicago made his larger. Splash in the Art world last March when he purchased a Canvas for $24?.000 depicting ii Man in a tattered shirt beside an onion that is so lifelike it almost smells. The Sale was controversial Feigen was positive the artist was Spanish baroque Rasler Josepe Ribera and that the Canvas was the Long missing smell one of the live senses Ribera painted in i615and 1616.two other senses. Touch and taste Are in american museums two Are missing. Christie s of new York which auctioned the painting insisted the Canvas was a copy hence Only Worth $5,000 $7.000. However three Art authorities recently reported that the Rich evocative painting was from the hand of Ribera. Indeed Feigen has been offered $1.4 million Lor smell almost six times what he paid live months ago. Ian Kennedy director of old master paintings or Christie s and the latest Art authority to believe Feigen bought the real smell Calls Feigen one of the Best. He has a very Good  Feigen eats drinks and sleeps Art. His Eye Tor Art and sell professed reaction to Quality have led the 54 year old dealer to More than a Hall dozen significant Art discoveries during the Las decade. In recent years he has helped find live of the world s great missing works. Susanne s Venus and Adonis which he purchased in London last year Lor $284,000, is now Worth about $3 million. It hangs in the Kimbell Art museum in fort Worth. Texas. A mis catalogued Check Van Aalst a 16th-Century flemish artist was mistakenly thought by rotheby s of London to be by Jan Wossaert. Ii was bought Lor $ 16.000 and now is Worth $ 125.000. An Early Dimel Calno from 1615. Landscape with shrine was purchased Lor $392 in 1973 from a Gloucestershire dealer. It now is Worth $200,000. Claude Lorraine s extensive wooded landscape circa 1634, was bought in London six years ago Lor $2.500 and is now Worth about $400,000. Carland s Point Ota men was purchased for $27,500 in june 1984 from Christie s in new York. It now is Worth $200,000. Sleuthing is not the Way movies depict it to be Feigen said during a recent interview at his East 79th Street gallery. Finding missing masterpieces in the basement of a gallery is often the figment of a film s imagination he said. Instead he searches auction Cata logs to see if there is something that s not quite what it seems. Dozens of dozens of things Are mis catalogued. Either they go unnoticed and bring nothing or once in a while two dealers usually sort it out and  he said. Fine Art taste helps too. I was born with a certain taste a certain Quality. You just can t learn it this Art dealer Richard Feigen with hit pointing by Claude Lorraine which hat been valued at about $400,000. Particular flair. I see a work of Art. And have a visceral reaction to the work of Art. It consumes me. And then i Start doing  with a Bachelor s degree in Fine arts from Yale University and a master s in business administration from Harvard University he will solicit experts in the Field if he has a Hunch about a find such As Dennis Mahn of London or Julius held of Bennington it. He and his staff of 16 also will compare the findings with those from his private Library of 5,000 Art texts and rare Cata logs. Sometimes he will visit other galleries to see in a picture is under attributed ascribed to a student when it s the work of the master. He occasionally travels to the Countryside to View private collections. Feigen said aide Lawrence Greenough has a Superb Eye. He often sees what others can  his Eye Lor the outstanding was evident at age 10, when Feigen. The son of a Chicago attorney purchased a 1792 Watercolour by Isaac Cruikshank. The meat Market evacuated is still part of his personal collection. After graduate school. Feigen worked As a treasurer for a life insurance company in los Angeles. He was a member of the new York Stock Exchange and then ventured Back to Chicago where he opened an Art gallery. He opened the Manhattan gallery 19 years ago. His Art discoveries have been Worth millions. Feigen has a private Art collection that is considered priceless. Feigen s upper West Side duplex includes two of the most important . Turners in private hands he is a specialist in the British artist. Several Max Beckmann. Two by Richard Parkes boning on and iwo by Orazio Gen Litschi. Bumbeck la my life i be been told the Only thing that will survive alter the Earth has gone Down in defeat is the cockroach. He alone will remain to give testimony that there was a e on Earth it was just one Roach Motel alter another. However i have evidence to prove that the cock Roach is not the Only earthling that will outlive a in my refrigerator As i write Are three foods that have refused to die a leftover bowl of split pea soup a Christmas Fruitcake and a bag of hard Rolls. You Don t want to know How Long these goods have been in my House.  it to say Eye a two moves three Power outages a blizzard a 100 year flood three teen agers and an exorcist. The split pea soup was a gift from my Mother. She made a quart of it one Day and after she and my dad had eaten it Lor three months said. Why Don i you Lake some of it Home with you ordinarily i do no. Eal anything that turns Green when you Cook ii and takes Olf your lipstick when you eat it but i left sorry for her. She seemed so desperate. Ii would be kind to say the split pea soup grew in the refrigerator. It festered. It won t die and it won t live. The Fruitcake was also a gift. It was from a woman who asked me in i wanted one of her homemade Truit cakes for Christmas and i said no i do not like fruit  this is like throwing Down a Gauntlet for fruit cake people. You May not like Fruitcake but you will love their Fruitcake. She picked up the Challenge and said i use 135 fruits in mine and it s moist and heavy and it will last Lor  she got that right. I be served that Fruitcake at every picnic Christmas dinner. Thanksgiving and birthday Celebration since 1979. It s too Sticky Lor a Doorstop too big for a paperweight too Young to petrify and too old to Eal. Some of the fruits in in have become extinct. I be done some checking around and cannot find three people who like Xirui cake. Yet every year at Christmas hundreds of them Are baked and distributed. This is scary. The kids got the hard Rolls one night in a Doggy bag i was against it from the beginning. I be always had a theory thai some hard Rolls have been recycled Lor As Long As a decade. Ii a bile is out of them they heal themselves. The recycling ring in t just Domestic it s International. A Lew years ago when my husband and i went to Africa Lor the first time we must have been served the same hard Roll 15 limes. Finally on a flight Over Nairobi we initiated it and sure enough it showed up in a Small restaurant in South America. The sneaky thing about hard Rolls is they Leel soil when you take them out of the rely Aerator Lor dinner but seconds alter they re put on the plate they turn to Stone so you keep saving them. Life on Earth without people is going to be real inter Esting. With the split pea soup. The Fruitcake and the hard Rolls holding Forth. I m willing to bet those cockroaches won t stand a Chance