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What Tate paid for art 2004-06

A complete list of Tate's acquisitions from the last two years, and what they paid for them

The Art Newspaper
30 September 2006
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Joshua Reynolds, The Archers (oil on canvas), £3,200,000 (private collector); Richard P. Bonington, French Coast (oil on canvas), £1,284,000 (private collector); Sigmar Polke, Triptych (mixed media on fabric), £817,000 (Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne); Chris Ofili, The Upper Room (oil and other material), £600,000 (Victoria Miro Gallery); Francis Picabia, Otaiti (oil on canvas), £591,000 (Waddington Galleries); Anish Kapoor, Ishi’s Light, £483,000; Michelangelo Pistoletto, Venus of the Rags (marble and textiles), £413,000 (Fondazione Pistoletto); Luciano Fabro, Foot (mixed media), £401,000 (private collector); Tracey Emin, various, £250,000; Andrea Soldi, Portrait of Henry Hunter (oil on canvas), £245,000 (Lane Fine Art); Bruce Nauman, Mapping the Studio II (video), £220,000 (Sperone Westwater, New York); Willem Wissing, Portrait of Henrietta and Mary Hyde (oil on canvas), £200,000 (Richard Green); Guillermo Kuitca, Untitled (mixed media), £165,000 (Sperone Westwater, New York); Gilbert & George, named, £157,000; Lawrence Weiner, 5 Statement Works (Language), £143,000 (Marian Goodman Gallery, New York); Richard Dadd, Wandering Musicians (oil on canvas), £140,000 (Leicester Galleries); Michelangelo Pistoletto, Standing Man (mixed media), £140,000 (Fondazione Pistoletto); Olafur Eliasson, Your Double-lighthouse Projection, £131,000; Gilbert & George, Fates (digital transfer on photograph), £130,000 (White Cube); Audio Arts, archive, £120,000 (Audio Arts); Marcus Lüpertz, The Big Step (oil on canvas), £119,000 (Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne); Cristina Iglesias, Pavilion (wire and steel cables), £115,000 (Marian Goodman Gallery, New York); John Baldessari, Hope (mixed media), £113,000 (Marian Goodman Gallery, New York); René Daniëls, Hollande Nieuwe (oil on canvas), £106,000 (Anton and Annick Herbert); Mario Merz, Untitled (photograph and neon tube), £105,000 (Beatrice Merz, Turin); Rodney Graham, How I Became a Ramblin’ Man (film), £102,000 (Donald Young Gallery, Chicago); John Latham, Time Base Roller (mixed media), £100,000 (Lisson Gallery); Francis Alÿs, Pebble Walk (mixed media), £90,000 (Lisson Gallery); Richard Long, Red Slate Circle (slate), £89,000 (private collector); Victor Grippo, Energy of a Potato (mixed media), £85,000 (Latin American Acquisitions Committee); Steve McQueen, Caribs’ Leap (video), £80,000 (Marian Goodman Gallery, New York); René Daniëls, Mystic Transportation (oil on canvas), £77,000 (Frith Street Gallery); Eduardo Paolozzi, Collage Mural (mixed media on hardboard), £75,000 (Richard Salmon Gallery); Godfrey Kneller, The Fourth Lord Wharton (oil on canvas), £72,000 (private collector); Jean-Marc Bustamante, Lava I (steel, ink and perspex), £62,000 (Timothy Taylor Gallery); Thomas Hirshhorn, Drift Topography (mixed media), £61,000 (Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York); Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave Archive (mixed media), £60,000 (Modern Institute, Glasgow); Rodney Graham, Fishing on a Jetty (photograph), £57,000 (303 Gallery, New York); Alfredo Jaar, Lament (mixed media), £57,000 (Latin American Acquisitions Committee).

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