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Deaccessioning

  • News Items : A Painting Withdrawn from Auction Thanks to the French Ministry of Culture 01/04/2014

    The Conseil Général de Côte-d'Or was about to sell a 19th century painting for a modest estimate between 2 to 3,000€ on 6 April in Dijon at Sadde auctioneers. The work used to hang on the wall of the courtroom at Semur-en-Auxois until it closed and (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : The Delaware Art Museum Sells Works to Repay its Debts 31/03/2014

    Even American museums which practice deaccessioning follow a golden rule : the revenue from the sale must go toward new acquisitions. This rule, already broken recently by the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia, (...)

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  • News Items : An American Painting Joins the National Gallery in London 10/02/2014

    Can a museum sell its collections ? In the United States the answer is yes and, although it is supposed to reinvest the earnings in the acquisition of other works, the practice would still appear to contradict the primary mission of an (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : A 2010 Tissot Donation to the Met Sold in 2013 03/10/2013

    On 16 June 2010, barely three years ago, we announced the donation by Mrs. Wrightsman of two small paintings by James Tissot to the Metropolitan Museum. Today, one of them is to be resold by the institution at Christie's New York on 28 (...)

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  • News Items : A Masterpiece May Be Auctioned off in Enghien (Wallonia) 23/05/2013

    Readers might remember the plan to sell the painting The Soler Family by Picasso in Liège (January 1989-March 1990) or, more recently in the spring of 2012, the suggestion, though with little media coverage, made by the alderman for Culture in (...)

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  • News Items : A Belgian Bank Plans to Sell its Art Works 03/01/2013

    Culture for all" : a lofty precept proclaimed by the Belgian bank, Belfius, the owner of an extensive collection of about 4,500 art works of which it is duly proud stating : "A locally anchored relationship bank, Belfius wishes to fully carry (...)

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  • News Items : The Keys to Algiers Will Remain at the Musée de l’Armée 02/01/2013

    The keys to Algiers, which the President of the French Republic was supposed to give Abdelaziz Bouteflika on his upcoming trip to Algeria next 19 and 20 December 2012

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  • News Items : The Keys to Algiers from the Musée de l’Armée Transformed into a Diplomatic Gift by the Elysée Presidential Palace 05/12/2012

    During a recent exhibition highlighting Algeria, the honorary keys to Algiers which Dey Hussein handed over to the French army after the fall of the city on 5 July 1830, thus belonging to the Musée de l'Armée in Paris, were on view and in fact (...)

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