About 200 more dead brants have been recovered from small coastal bays elsewhere in southern Atlantic County and northern Cape May County, said Steve Atzert, the refuge manager.
Aside from the costs of legal representation, the filing fees alone are more than Brant earns in a single month as a public school teacher (and you can see what San Francisco teachers make here).
There is no telling which is now costing Mr. Brant more his business or his marriage.
"They're like kids; they've got their moods," said Captain Stasaitis, "Amy is a little more hyper than Brant.
The Brants' collection numbers more than 1,000 works, by more than 100 artists.
Characteristically, Brant was more discreet, if in his own way as obsessed.
The ship allegory is not sustained; instead Brant presents more than 100 fools representing every contemporary shortcoming, serious and trivial.
The first outstanding example of fool's literature was Das Narrenschiff (1494; "The Ship of Fools"), a long poem by the German satirist Sebastian Brant, in which more than 100 fools are gathered on a ship bound for Narragonia, the fools' paradise.
Perhaps not since underwriting the Warhol Mao portraits with Bischofberger more than a quarter-century ago has Brant so proudly supported an artistic endeavor.
In yet another strange twist to the tale, Mr. Brant had owned the same picture more than 30 years ago.
