Check this incredible slide show of ex-banker Edemar Cid Ferreira’s house. This museum-like palace hosts a mural painted by Sol LeWitt and works by Frank Stella, Nikki de Saint Phalle, Di Cavalcanti, Franz Krajcberg, Amilcar de Castro, Tomie Ohtake, Oscar Niemeyer, Vik Muniz and Bruno Giorgi. And I could keep dropping names for ever. Ferreira was expelled last week from this mansion because he did not pay the (relatively low) 20,000 reais (around 11,800 dolars) monthly rent since 2004. In the past, before his Banco Santos broke, in the midst of a big financial scandal, he was a huge patron of Brazilian arts. When things blew up, he sent part of his collection abroad, but it was recovered by the FBI.
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