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The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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
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 (...)
