Edouard Manet
Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus. 1868
Source: bbc.co.uk

For eight months, the British managed to raise 7.83 million pounds in ransom for the nation, "Portrait of Miss Claus" brush Edouard Manet. A painting of a young violinist Fanny Claus, a friend of the artist's wife, is a sketch to a masterpiece Manet's "Balcony" (1869, Louvre). Although the sketch of Miss Claus is a work of French artist, the British considered him a "national treasure" and is not lost to a foreign buyer.

«Portrait of Miss Claus" is not left Albion in 1884 when it is, soon after the death of Manet, the artist bought a John Singer Sargent. All these years, the picture was hereditary in the family of Sergeant, and for nearly half a century, exhibited only once - in 1983 at the National Gallery. In 2011, an unknown foreign collector bought the canvas for 28.35 million pounds. However, the UK Minister for Culture Ed Veyzi imposed a ban on the export of paintings from the country. Ashmole Museum at Oxford, volunteered to raise funds to purchase the painting at a discounted price of 7.83 million pounds (only 27%of its market value).

National Lottery Fund has provided for the purchase of web 5.9 million pounds, 850,000 pounds has given the public art fund, the remaining amount donated by individuals. Total 1069 art lovers decided to help the Museum Ashmole to keep the portrait of Manet. Their contributions ranged from the modest 1.5 pounds to an impressive 10,000 pounds. The last missing £ 30 donated to the museum 11-year-old Mara Talbot, daughter of a teacher of drawing. The girl was even invited to a grand press conference on the end of the fundraising campaign.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru

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