Art Fund

Barr exerted what stress he may, together with having art-world allies testify to the work’s historic significance, however to no avail. In the end, he discovered a provision in a bequest to MoMA that permitted the sale of one of the works in the donor’s assortment to have the ability to purchase another. He picked a Degas horse-racing scene and supplied it to Seligmann in trade for “Les Demoiselles,” a transaction that did not require board approval. If you walk by way of the fifth ground of MoMA today, where art that is owned by the museum and that was made between 1880 and 1940 is displayed, you might be trying at the very works whose art-world adventures are the topic of Eakin’s e-book. But MoMA grew to become, in impact, Quinn’s museum, and Quinn’s canon became Barr’s canon.

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