New York Public Library to Sell Major Artworks to Raise Funds

Carol Vogel at the Times breaks it to art collectors everywhere: if you have $100 million burning a hole in your pocket, here’s you chance to difersify.

"The New York Public Library has decided to sell 19 works of art from its collection – including "Kindred Spirits," a widely admired landscape by the Hudson River School painter Asher B. Durand, and two seminal portraits of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart – so that it can better compete in acquisitions of important books and collections."

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