Acquisitions
Christie’s is bought out by the French
François Pinault’s offer is a massive twenty-six times earnings
Kimbell buys MoMA Monet
The work was chosen by Monet himself for his final retrospective in 1924
The Getty acquires “The fates of illustrious men and women” by the Boucicaut Master
Though the identity of the Boucicaut Master is unknown, his work is extremely valuable
Edinburgh acquires Raphael drawing
It is now the National Gallery's second drawing by Raphael
Bellotto’s “Königstein” bought by Washington's National Gallery for $9.6 million
It makes it their most expensive purchase since Leonardo’s “Ginevra de’ Benci”
National Gallery: new loans, new acquisitions
The Buccleuch Leonardo, the Halifax Titian plus two fine Danish purchases
Problems with British Museum acquisitions summed up in new show 'Collecting the Twentieth Century'
An exhibition at the British Museum makes Brian Sewell question whether it should be buying twentieth-century material at all
National Galleries of Scotland buy a Leonardo and Picasso on a purchase grant of just £1.65 million p.a.
They are also improving their Surrealism holdings
Alain Delon collection auction: Delon sells a Modigliani “to buy a super Modigliani”
Japanese buyers come away with large proportion of lots
High tech whizz kids beat Rizzoli to purchase Phaidon
Mark Futter and Richard Schlagman are the new owners of Phaidon Press, the jewel in the crown of Musterlin, which collapsed in October.