More deaccessioning
April 11 2011
The headlines today are that Bolton Council has decided not to sell a work by local artist Alfred Heaton Cooper (above). But they will press ahead with the sale of 36 other works deemed irrelevant to their 'core collection'. These will be offered at Bonhams over the next few months. The list includes:
- Gaspard Dughet Classical Landscape
- Richard Ansdell Buzzard and Ptarmigan
- William Powell Frith A Dream of the Future
- 18th Century French School The Finding of Oedipus
- Arthur Ambrose McEvoy Madame Errasuriz
- Walter Richard Sickert Pauline de Talleyrand-Perigord
- Philip Wilson Steer The Falls at Aysgarth
- John Everett Millais The Somnambulis
- George Romney King Lear
- Edward Burne-Jones Danae and the Brazen Tower
- Charles Ginner English Landscape
As you can see, there are some big names on the list. And this is just one sale by one council. Floodgates? Opening?
