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sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works
The museum deaccessioned several important works of this painter
How To Use deaccession In A Sentence
- Among her purchases were two royal door panels of Saint Basil and Saint John Chrysostom that had been deaccessioned from the Tretiakov Gallery.
- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has deaccessioned this Portrait of a Courtier by Jan Mostaert after concluding that it was looted by the Nazis.
- These drawings, which Sargent's sisters had given to the Gorcoran Gallery of Art in 1928, were among ninety drawings that the Gorcoran deaccessioned in 1960.
- Then, in a mini-scandal that same year, the Guggenheim deaccessioned 24 paintings, including a number by Scarlett, Bauer and Rebay, prompting charges that the museum was selling off its history.
- The deaccessioned works, they explained, were sold privately to collectors, not at public auction.
- The National Gallery in London retains the largest holding of his works, including the famous Annunciation, deaccessioned from the Brera in 1820.
- Deaccessioning, as they call it, is strictly controlled. Times, Sunday Times
- At a time when libraries are more and more strapped for funds, I suppose more deaccessions are inevitable.
- The cabinet was deaccessioned in 1929, a victim of twentieth-century disdain for the later nineteenth century.
- To help purchase the work, the MFA deaccessioned three related works - two Degas pastels and a Renoir painting - which sold at Sotheby's May auction of Impressionist and Modern Art for a total of $16.2 million.
