Brooklyn Museum Plans to Sell Vereshchagin
Margaret Anne Samu <[email protected]>
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The Brooklyn Museum has recently announced plans to deaccession and sell a painting by Vasilii Vereshchagin, A Crucifixion in the Time of the Romans (1887). The painting was one of three works acquired by a private collector at the artist's 1891 solo exhibition in New York, and was donated to the Brooklyn Museum in 1906 along with two other two. The curator who led the decision to deaccession the work describes his reasoning in the museum's blog. His arguments for selling the work seem highly questionable (as you can see from my response to his posting). If he wants to sell it to raise money for acquisitions, then he should just say so rather than pretending that it was a well researched and reasoned process. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2011/10/03/refining-the-russian-collection/ According to Lee Rosenbaum's CultureGrrl blog, the painting will be sold at Christie's London on 28 November. I hope colleagues in the London area will have a chance to see it there before it inevitably disappears into a private collection. http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2011/10/vereshchagin_chagrin_russian_r.html Margaret Samu ====================== Margaret Samu, Ph.D. Adjunct Assistant Professor Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University 215 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10016 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Shera mailing list [email protected] http://lists.oakland.edu/mailman/listinfo/shera