MoMA had sold a Giorgio de Chirico, a Piet Mondrian, and a Pablo Picasso at Sotheby’s New York in November that year, together collecting $13.6 million, and works by Claude Monet, Wassily Kandinsky, Renoir, and Picasso were traded privately by Swiss dealers Thomas Ammann and Ernst Beyeler. To obtain the work, however, it had to part ways with seven pieces. In 1989, the Museum of Modern Art’s director, Richard Oldenburg, announced that the institution had acquired Vincent van Gogh’s 1888–89 portrait of postman Joseph Roulin from a Swiss private collection.
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“If there is anything positive that has come out of this case,” Kan told the New York Times, “it is that museums now have a code of ethics and bylaws.”ġ980s–1990s: The Market Expands-and Museums FollowĪs the market expanded during the ’80s, museums went even bigger with their deaccessioning efforts, taking advantage of the high prices being achieved at auction by Impressionist and modern artworks. In 1983, he reached a settlement with the AGO. Kan stood accused of selling $750,000 worth of “primitive” art from the museum’s permanent holdings. institution to grab headlines over the sale of works from its collection. The museum’s former assistant director, Michael Kan, was sued by the New York attorney general, who alleged that his transactions with art dealers James Economos, Douglas Ewing, and Robert Taylor went against protocols. In 1978, the Brooklyn Museum became the next major U.S. In the end, that investigation found that the Met had not been transparent enough about the deaccessioning process. The Met and its leadership were widely criticized, and the state attorney general investigated whether or not the museum violated de Groot’s will. Today, deaccessioning is done often, but at the time, it was not widely talked about, and the museum’s selling-off of works was met with swift disapproval. from a Christie’s London sale for $5.6 million in 1971. The museum used the funds gained from those sales to acquire another work: a Velázquez portrait of his assistant Juan de Pareja, which the Met acquired via dealer Wildenstein & Co. The Rousseau painting and van Gogh’s The Olive Pickers sold for an estimated $1.5 million. Within a few years, however, some of them were headed to sale, in what would become one of the first major deaccessioning controversies in recent history.Īmong the works given by de Groot to the Met was Henri Rousseau’s The Tropics, which was sold at Marlborough Galleries alongside works by Pierre Bonnard, Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In 1967, a donation of 200 works from the estate of Adelaide Milton de Groot came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja (1650) was bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of a deaccessioning effort in 1972.
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