Baltimore Museum to Sell 3 Blue-Chip Paintings to Advance Equity
THE NEW YORK TIMES
As museums face increasing financial pressures and industrywide demands from staff to create more equitable workplaces, a second institution is taking advantage of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ temporary pandemic-era loosening of its deaccessing guidelines: They now allow the selling of art from museum collections to fund the direct care of collections — not just the acquisition of other artworks.
The Baltimore Museum of Art is deaccessioning three paintings, by Brice Marden, Clyfford Still and Andy Warhol, and expects to receive approximately $65 million from a combination of an auction and a private sale at Sotheby’s in the next several weeks. [More]
By Hilarie M. Sheets
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| Andy Warhol’s “The Last Supper” (1986) is being offered by Sotheby’s through private sale.Credit...The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
