Cloth 1966 "Sailors" is estimated at 6-8 million dollars

Cases museums selling works from their collections, not rare, and in the society they cause very different reactions: some of them criticize others justify, prohibit the museum is the third such deal , fourth attempt to consolidate the inalienability of collections to the new laws . Mind to guide museums are forced to sell a variety of circumstances, the most common of them - financial problems, lack of funds for repairs, maintenance of the collection, restoration exhibits. The leadership of the Bremen Museum of Modern Art Vezerburg to sell paintings by Gerhard Richter found quite different reasons.

Museum exhibited at Sotheby's November auction in New York painting by Gerhard Richter (1966), "Sailors' planning bail for her 8.6 million dollars. As reported by the museum guide at the press conference, the only reason for selling his paintings is a discrepancy between the main idea of the museum.

As told in an interview with director Carsten Ahrens (Carsten Ahrens), Vezerburg Museum opened in 1991 as a "museum collectors. He has exhibited solid private collections, not individual products, thereby giving an idea of looking at the art of a particular collector, rather than the curators of the museum. This approach was new for Europe, 1990. However, over time, the museum received some items as a gift, something is gained, and as a result walked away from his original ideas, exposing the individual works, rather than collection. On the eve of the 20 th anniversary of the museum's leadership decided to reconsider the idea that lies at its core, to examine the state of the collection, and determine future directions.

One of the largest paintings Richter "sailors" with his signature Sfumato first be shown in exhibitions at Sotheby's in Hong Kong and London and then travel to New York where he will be on display in the evening auction of Contemporary Art on November 9. The following year the Museum also plans to sell Vezerburg "Portrait of Luciano" Gercha Franz (Franz Gertsch).

material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru