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A first Grimshaw for Chicago
25/10/24 - Acquisition - Chicago, Art Institute - As we mentioned in the news item of the Art Institute of Chicago’s recent purchase of a masterpiece by Holman Hunt (see news item of 14/3/22), the Institute is determined to add British works to its collection of 19th-century European art, which is particularly renowned for its French holdings. This summer saw the addition of a night scene by John Atkinson Grimshaw (ill. 1), another English artist of the Victorian period, acquired from London dealers Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker, who exhibited it at Tefaf last spring. Recently rediscovered in a private collection, this oil on cardboard - or on thick watercolour paper fixed to the cardboard [1] - mounted in its original frame (ill. 2), reappeared on the London art market in September…
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