Martin Bailey
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Buyer of mysterious $9m Rembrandt painting revealed (opens the original)
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The buyer of a major Rembrandt painting has been identified. Thomas Kaplan, the New York-based owner of the Leiden Collection, has bought St John on Patmos. It sold for £6.75m ($9m) at Sotheby’s last December. Astonishingly, this makes it the 18th painting by Rembrandt to be acquired by Kaplan’s collection in the past two decades. The news may come as a surprise, since just two months later Kaplan sold a Rembrandt: a drawing of a lion, which went for nearly $18m at Sotheby’s in February. Why wou
The astonishing story of Van Gogh collector Gertrud Dübi-Müller is finally celebrated in an exhibition at Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Basel (opens the original)
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Gertrud Müller was orphaned very young, but she still managed to buy a Van Gogh portrait at the age of just 19. This was before the artist had won international recognition—and she was among the very earliest Swiss collectors of his work. The painting was dispatched to Müller on 27 April 1908, two days before her 20th birthday and paid for the following day (30 April). She eventually bequeathed the Van Gogh to the Kunstmuseum Solothurn, in her hometown in northwest Switzerland. This week it went
Dutch museum puts all of its Van Goghs on display for the first time in more than two decades (opens the original)
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The Kröller-Müller Museum, which owns pictures donated by the greatest private collector of Van Gogh, has just hung all of its paintings by the artist for the first time since 2003. Based in a national park near the Dutch village of Otterlo, the museum usually has space for only half this number. The remainder of the Van Goghs are usually in store or on loan, with an occasional one in the conservation studio. Helene Kröller-Müller, a connoisseur and the wife of a wealthy businessman, acquired th
Review | ‘£1 a minute’: is the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth it? (opens the original)
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The critics have given The Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum five stars, but they visited in privileged circumstances, with plenty of space and time to savour the experience. So what is it like for the paying public? I went yesterday, on the first day. Precious ticket in hand, I joined a 20-minute queue to enter the exhibition. We then climbed the stairs to an upper-level, to find another line of people disappearing into the distance. This main queue took 25 minutes, with visitors experienci
Jewish collectors in Germany once helped make Berlin the Van Gogh capital of Europe (opens the original)
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German collectors were among the first to appreciate the radical art of Van Gogh. In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, there were around 150 of his works in private collections in Germany. By 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, there were almost none left with these collectors. The majority of Van Gogh collectors in Germany were Jewish (or of Jewish heritage). After 1933 they quickly became victims of Nazi persecution. Some had to go into exile, often being forced to relinquish
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