Museum acquisitions
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Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a rising star of Weimar-era Berlin to a Bohemian Virgin and Child
The Finding of Moses is on display, but it will soon be moved to the newly refurbished Baroque room
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 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
The files included a letter from Serota himself
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
Flags, pamphlets and logos by the climate activist organisation were acquired for museum's Rapid Response Collecting gallery
National Museum of Contemporary Art spends €50,000 on new works from Frieze
The artist's work is among 287 purchases made by Tate in the last year
Two new artists and an old favourite make the cut
The gallery paid £11,000 for the four bronze sculptures in 1957 - Christie's just sold one for $48.8m
Techno-design is go for museum collections
Works by Lorna Simpson, Július Koller, and Jimmie Durham make up the selections this year
The works selected reflect Tate's increasingly global outlook and support of young artists
£3.3m required for export-delayed object
Scholars no nearer to finding the faker’s identity
The supercharged shopping trip was worth £125,000 this year
For his partial donation of £125m worth of art, the dealer received £26.5m—the price he originally paid for the collection—tax free
Bigger Trees near Warter is 12m long and 4.5m high, and made up of 50 separate canvases
The faux-ethnographic sculptures may be the gallery's most expensive contemporary art purchase
The important Art Deco sculpture was purchased last year
The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm
The Blue Rigi has been sold to an overseas collector, and after last year's loss of the Dark Rigi the pressure is on
The gallery is hoping to display all three Rigi watercolours in January, uniting them for the first time
Will be shown in Surreal Things exhibition next year
The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund's budget of £150,000 saw 28 works enter the collection
As it is not accredited by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council due to its deacquisition guidelines