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NEW YORK: A drawing by Flemish Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens sold for $8.2 million in an auction in New York on Wednesday that was criticized by some in the Netherlands who said the work should have been offered to a Dutch museum. Sotheby´s described the small, rectangular “Nude Study of a Young Man with Raised Arms” as a key …

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