Vereshchagin on the Auction Block

[Francoise Rosset]

Unfortunately, private buyers can pay much more than institutions 
these days.

In a parallel story, I'm still ticked off at the New York public 
library for selling off Asher Durand's _Kindred Spirits_, which had 
been willed to them precisely BECAUSE they are the NY Public Library.

They claimed to give priority to local institutions, but how can you 
enforce that? The painting was bought by Wal-Mart heiress Alice 
Walton, who said she would put it in her museum, in Bentonville 
(Arkansas) and lend it to exhibitions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/13/nyregion/13painting.html

Follow-up: Her museum is slated to open this fall, on 11.11.11 ...
-FR

Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor
Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
Office: (508) 285-3696
FAX:   (508) 286-3640

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