And now:Sonja Keohane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: For those who remember the issues (sent to the list by Norman Fournier) of the Daishowa paper company and the lawsuits they lodged against the Friends of the Lubicon for instigating boycots against those who used the paper products of Daishowa's destructive logging business... A strange twist that perhaps gives insight into the mind of the chairman of the Daishowa company. imo, an empty man, without soul...driven by greed to fill his and his company's insatiable needs at the expense of the destruction of Native land in Canada, and now perhaps the destruction of these paintings. $82.5M Van Gogh Painting Missing Filed at 3:35 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- No one in the art world seems to know the whereabouts of the most expensive painting ever sold, even though it has not been reported stolen. The painting is a portrait by Vincent van Gogh of Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, the doctor and friend of the artist who watched over him in the last weeks of his life. Many consider the 1890 painting to be van Gogh's last important portrait. When the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York tried to find the painting for its current exhibition, museum officials could not locate the masterpiece, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Sunday. The exhibition catalog noted the absence with the words ``present location unknown.'' In 1990, Japanese businessman Ryoei Saito paid $82.5 million at an auction for ``Portrait of Dr. Gachet,'' the most money ever paid for a painting. Saito, the honorary chairman of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co., said he stored it in a warehouse after looking at it once. That year, shortly after paying the Japanese government a $24 million tax bill, he told friends that the van Gogh and a Renoir he bought at the same auction should be burned at his cremation so his heirs would not have to pay an inheritance tax. At the time, it was regarded as a joke. Six years later, he died at age 79. It is unclear if anyone has seen the van Gogh since. ---end of NYT excerpt-----