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Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019
Miami collectors William and Beatrice Cox will donate the fruit piece to an unnamed institution
The historic documents “highlight the complexities of documenting America’s ‘peculiar institution’”
Additions to the collection include a painting by one of the eight artists who threatened to pull their art from display in protest against vice chairman Warren Kanders
From European paintings to the decorative arts, the patron and her oil tycoon husband, who both served as trustees for decades, gave the New York museum more than 1,275 works in all
The 17th-century painting The Finding of Moses was painted in London for Charles I and represented the birth of Charles II
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from an 800-year-old figure of Christ to a rediscovered Delacroix painting
Bequest comes from New York collector Jayne Wrightsman, who amassed an 18th-century library to complement her celebrated French furnishings
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist terrier to vintage prints by Vivian Maier
The brightly coloured painting, depicting the same family scene, has been in private hands for decades, most recently the Chilean Alana Collection
The event will be renamed The Open Art Fair and will launch in March next year
As the Tate Britain show opens, we reveal the inside story of the Tate’s failure to acquire 19 watercolours from a portfolio that turned up in a Glasgow bookshop
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections—from a compendium of African American history to the vast archive of an expelled Surrealist
The Finding of Moses, currently on loan at the London museum, is owned by sofa-billionaire Graham Kirkham
Cabinet of curiosities cannot go to US because of tough ivory regulations
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide—from Lee Krasner's record-setting painting to a Hogarth conversation piece
Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation
The massive work, shown at the 2017 Venice Biennale, re-interprets 19th-century wallpaper depicting native Pacific peoples
Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Delacroix’s sketchbooks to a pair of Brexit vases
The state has deferred the painting's export licence giving the museum 30 months to find the funds
The Rocket Man will organise a photography exhibition at the London institution with his husband David Furnish
Fig-futures project brings works worth £80,000 to four venues
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Van Dyck’s portrait of a princess bride to a rare painting by a Brazilian Modernist
The US artist’s daughter shares memories behind the sculptures and drawings
The museum aims to show the diversity of the region, where art and cultures have mixed for centuries
She is “relaxed and very stylish” in the portrait
Still Life With Mackerel demonstrates the French 18th-century artist's virtuosity in the genre
Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a totemic Klansman to the art of colonial Latin America
Portrait of Charles I’s daughter was purchased at Christie’s, London in December
