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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is preparing the art sale. Stock Photography.
In a first stage, museum employees will review what works have been rarely or never exhibited, or if there are works that have been replaced by better copies.
– It would be inappropriate for us not to consider this, when the situation is not yet clear, says the museum’s director, Max Heollein, to the newspaper.
Previously, the Brooklyn Museum received approximately SEK 285 million for the sale of art at American and European auction houses. However, the Baltimore Museum of Art came together on patrol to sell works by Brice Marden, Clyfford Still, and Andy Warhol. After receiving criticism, the works by Marden and Still were withdrawn at the last minute.
Before the pandemic, museums sold art only to finance new purchases, not to care for collections.