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It is much more pleasant for one to share music with others than to enjoy it alone, said philosopher Mencius (385-304 BC). Mexican business tycoon Juan Anotonio Perez Simon may not have heard the Chinese saying but "what he offers to fans of European art at the Beijing World Art Museum is in the
spirit of the Mencius doctrine," says the museum's curator Wang Limei.
Having shown his collection in many of the world's most prestigious art museums, the famed art connoisseur and his Juntos Actuandos foundation have brought at least 100 oil paintings to art enthusiasts in Asia for the first time, without asking for any payback, according to Wang.
Wang flew to Mexico last year to select exhibits from Juan Antonio Perez Simon's private collection of more than 3,000 artworks.
Featuring paintings, sculpture, drawings, the decorative arts, and manuscripts from the 14th to the 19th centuries, the Mexican collection is widely considered one of the most significant private art collections in the Americas by art historians.
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