Regulars had barely had time to celebrate the reopening of their museum on September 12, when the announcement fell.
In its Thursday edition, the
New York Times
announces that the Brooklyn Museum will auction twelve of his works, including paintings by Cranach the Elder, Courbet and Corot.
The sale will take place on October 15 at Christie's New York.
Purpose of the operation: to generate a cash flow of 40 million dollars for the maintenance of the collections and the salaries of the curators, to the tune of 2 M $ each year.
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In the United States much more than in France, the crisis due to the Covid-19 epidemic has fatally affected small museums and also injured mastodons such as that of Brooklyn, rich in 160,000 treasures.
To the point that the powerful Association of Art Museum Directors has accepted death in the soul not to penalize, until April 2022, those who would start giving up elements of their heritage in order to simply survive.
Previously she only tolerated
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