Edouard Manet Portrait of Mademoiselle Klaus
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Eshmolovsky Museum at Oxford University is collecting funds to buy the" Portrait of Miss Claus "(1868) painted by Edouard Manet (Edouard Manet) for his collection. Culture Minister Ed Veyzi (Ed Vaizey) extended imposed last year, a temporary ban on exports sold to a foreign citizen abroad pictures until August - the museum hopes that this time will have time to collect the amount necessary to purchase works.

painting was sold for 28.35 million pounds, however, under contract to purchase the work before it will have time to take out of the country, may, at a discounted price with tax benefits to be acquired by any British museum. In order to collect the necessary sum for the purchase of paintings in the 7.83 million pounds, Eshmolovsky Museum asked the public funds and private individuals, and also began a public campaign to raise the necessary funds.

Eshmolovskogo museum director Christopher Brown (Christopher Brown) said: "This is one of the key works of art of the XIX century, which was in the UK since it was acquired some time after his death. "Brown noted that, although the museum will collect a considerable sum, compared with the actual cost of fabric is a penny and it would be a huge mistake not to take this opportunity and do not keep a job for the British nation. Picture of admiration for another great artist - John Singer Sargent (John Singer Sargent), who acquired it in 1884.

purchase would allow the collection of the Museum Eshmolovskogo an entirely new light to provide the public art of the Impressionists, especially in the UK quite a bit of important works of Manet. most important of them are in the National Gallery and the Courtauld Institute, as well as in museums Cardiff, Birmingham and Glasgow.

picture - sketch of the famous work of Manet's" Balcony "(1868-1869), located in Paris' Orsay Museum and is one of the key images of the early impressionist painting. plot is born during the holidays Manet in Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1868 , and refers to the work of Goya's "Mahi on the balcony," written in 1810. Portrait - typical of the late 1860s, the product of an artist, when Manet turned his creative attention to family and close friends.

The painting depicts Fanny Claus (Fanny Claus) (1846-1877), the closest friend of Manet's wife Suzanne Linhoff (Suzanne Leenhoff). Claus was a violinist and was a member of the first ever female string quartet, and in 1869 she married another Manet, the artist Pierre Прэнса (Pierre Prins, 1838-1913), but died of tuberculosis just eight years later at age 30.

If Eshmolovskomu museum will buy the work, it will go to exhibition tour of the UK. picture for the time of its existence was demonstrated at the show only once, so that its re-appearance in public would be an important milestone for both art lovers and professionals. This study characterized the remarkable quality of lively colors, which is not so evident in the created based on this picture of "Balcony" - the work that the artist finished the latest and processed in the studio.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

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