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Colmar acquires an early 16th-century panel

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2/12/24 - Acquisition - Colmar, Musée Unterlinden - The vagaries of history have frequently dispersed groups of paintings, thus impoverishing art history and condemning these works, which formed a coherent whole, to no longer being fully understood. Bringing together these dispersed paintings is almost a moral obligation for museums. So we can only be delighted when one of them buys an item that can be linked to an object already in its collections. And we can only be grateful to the patron who makes this possible.
This is what the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar has just done with a panel painted in the Haut-Rhin region around 1525 (ill. 1), preempted in Coutances on 30 November for €14,000 (excluding costs), thanks to the generous patronage of the Fondation La Marck, which our readers…

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