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Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum

  • News Items : Free Online Access to 250 Publications at the Getty 09/03/2014

    Recently, the Metropolitan Museum offered its out of print publications free of charge for downloading. Now, the Getty is doing the same with its publications, also at no cost, whether out of print or still available on paper. For the moment, (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : An Early Drawing by Seurat Acquired by the Getty 17/02/2014

    The auction of the Jan Krugier drawing collection at Sotheby's London on 6 February set new records, bad news for French museums with their increasingly lower budgets. True, the provenance was undoubtedly a strong factor and there is no way of (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : A Rembrandt (perhaps) and a Canaletto for the Getty Museum 13/05/2013

    We had recounted the story of this amazing discovery here : a presumed portrait by Rembrandt, on copper, which appeared on the auction block in England in October 2007 with the attribution, "follower of Rembrandt", had sold for 2.2 million (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : The Getty Acquires a 15thc. Illuminated Manuscript 09/12/2012

    The 15th century is known as the golden age for illuminations, particularly at the court of the Dukes of Burgundy as proven by the manuscript of the Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies, copied by David Aubert and illuminated by Lieven van Lathem (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : The Getty Purchases a Controversial Watteau 16/03/2012

    The Getty Museum has recently purchased as fully acknowledged by Antoine Watteau, a painting previously found in the Paul-Louis Weiller collection which had been auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot on 5 April 2011 at Gros-Delettrez under a cautious (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : Two New Acquisitions for the Getty Museum 09/02/2012

    The Getty has just announced the acquisition of two very different works. One is a 16th century German panel, the other an 18th century French drawing. However, both are of the finest quality. The painting, representing the Trinity surrounded by (...)

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  • News Items : A Drawing by Piero del Pollaiuolo Acquired by the Getty Museum 31/01/2012

    The Getty Museum has just announced the acquisition of a drawing attributed to Piero del Pollaiuolo which is a portrait of a young man dating from around 1470. Purchased at auction at Sotheby's New York on 25 January, it was estimated at (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : The Getty Museum Purchases a 16th century German Sculpture 09/12/2011

    A few days after announcing it had purchased a portrait by Manet, the Getty Museum has acquired a remarkable German sculpture from the early 16th century, in limewood, representing Saint John the Baptist at a Sotheby’s auction in London, for (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : Manet’s Portrait of Madame Brunet Acquired by the Getty Museum 03/12/2011

    t is still possible to acquire a Manet as recently proven by the Getty Museum which announced its purchase of the Portrait of Madame Brunet or Young Woman of 1860 from a private collector. The painting was in the famous Joan Whitney Payson (...)

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  • News Items : James Cuno appointed as head of the J. Paul Getty Trust 13/05/2011

    The Board of Trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which manages the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Foundation and the Getty Conservation Institute, announced it had appointed James Cuno as President and Chief (...)

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  • News Items : Another Turner for the Getty 09/08/2010

    Last 7 July, at an auction at Sotheby’s London, the Getty Museum purchased a Turner painting, Modern Rome – Campo Vacino, for almost 30 million pounds. This is the last representation of the city painted by the artist, in (...)

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  • News Items : From Roelandt Savery to Theodore Rousseau : four new landscapes at the Getty 30/12/2008

    Last 10 December the Getty Museum announced the purchase of Landscape with the Temptation of Saint Anthony by Roelandt Savery

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  • News Items : Two Pietro Cipriani bronzes acquired by the Getty Museum 03/11/2008

    Two bronze statues cast by Pietro Cipriani in Florence in 1724 were temporarily banned for export from the United Kingdom last July. As there was no British purchaser

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : The Portrait of the Marchioness of Miramon by Tissot acquired by the Getty Museum 31/08/2008

    We recently pointed out (see news item of 28/8/08) the Orsay’s acquisition of the marvellous

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  • News Items : A Claude Lorrain acquired by the Getty Museum 01/04/2008

    The museum in California enriched its collections a few months ago with a painting by Claude Lorrain representing

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  • News Items : A painting and a “dessin-empreinte ? by Gauguin acquired by the Getty Museum 15/03/2008

    The Getty Museum has just announced the purchase of The Royal End (Arii Matamoe) by Paul Gauguin

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  • News Items : A bust by Messerschmidt and an illuminated manuscript for the Getty Museum 25/02/2008

    Early 2005 the Getty Museum had tried to purchase The Ill-Humored Man by Franz-Xaver Messerschmidt in lead

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner