The British almost raised the money needed to buy Manet's painting "Portrait of Miss Claus"
Edouard Manet Portrait of Mademoiselle Klaus
Source: bbc.co.uk
Ashmole Museum at Oxford is close to that to collect the full amount needed to save UK work of the legendary Edouard Manet (Edouard Manet), reports the BBC. The picture is now exhibited in one of the halls of the museum - in the opinion of his leadership, it should bring it to public attention and help build the missing million pounds.
work size 111 x 70 cm was written in 1868 year and has since been publicly exhibited only once. Not so long ago it was sold to a foreign buyer at a price of 28.35 million pounds , but the UK Minister for Culture Ed Veyzi (Ed Vaizey) imposed a ban on the export of paintings from the country before August 7 with the proposal of any State to the museum to buy it at a discounted price of 7.8 million pounds. Pre-Export Control Committee works of art and cultural heritage found object piece of high artistic value and importance of scientific importance for the study of French painting.
Cultural Foundation of the National Lottery for the purchase of paintings donated 5.9 million pounds, the State Fund for Art - 750,000 pounds, 200,000 donated private donors, and the result is now a British art lovers need to collect an amount of 980,000 pounds.
Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus - an outline of well-known work of Edouard Manet's "Balcony". Manet was one of the first artists of his time who sought in his work to everyday life, and a portrait of the violinist Fanny Claus (Fanny Claus), a friend of the artist's wife - one of his first work of this kind. It is known that the canvas was originally larger, but later Manet cut it. The work was in a private collection in Great Britain for 128 years, ever since, as was acquired by the artist John Singer Sargent (John Singer Sargent).
According to Ashmole museum employee Susan McCormack (Susan McCormask) of the impressionists in the UK are rather meager - and even so the work of Manet's so important to the museum. Company to raise funds for the purchase of paintings held it on the Internet more than 1,600 people have signed special petition.
Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI
Source : bbc.co.uk , artinvestment.ru
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