Provenance Activity
Used by 24 examples.
| Example | Section | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
provenance/2 |
Transfer of Rights | |
provenance/3 |
Transfer of Rights | |
provenance/4 |
Transfer of Rights | |
provenance/5 |
Transfer of Rights | A copyright management organization, the Paintings Copyright Association, acquired the copyright for a particular painting in 2014. |
provenance/coffin_promise/1 |
Promised Activities | Thomas Jaffe has promised to give the 19th Century Indo-Pacific Coffin to Yale University Art Gallery. |
provenance/coffin_promise/40 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
provenance/durand_payne/1 |
Object Acquisition and Loan | Oliver Payne acquired Spring from the Durand-Ruel Gallery in New York in 1909 |
provenance/fixme/1 |
Object Acquisition and Loan | A sculpture is purchased with $900 going to the seller, and $100 going to the auction house. |
provenance/getty_bronze/1 |
Encounters with Objects | The "Statue of a Victorious Youth" was discovered in 1964 off the coast of Italy by a fishing trawler, thereby taking ownership of it. |
provenance/manet_proust/1 |
Object Provenance | Édouard Manet sold his painting, Jeanne, to Antonin Proust in 1883 for 3,000 francs. |
provenance/manet_proust/40 |
Required Vocabulary Terms | |
provenance/mona_lisa_theft/1 |
Loans, Thefts, Losses and other Changes of Custody | The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 by Vincenzo Peruggia. |
provenance/nuveen_commission/1 |
Promised Activities | The "Nuveen Painting" by Jim Dine was commissioned by Richard Franke in 1985. |
provenance/payneheirs_getty/1 |
Object Acquisition and Loan | In 2014, the family heirs of Oliver Payne sold Spring (by auction at Christie's) to Otto Naumann, acting for the J. Paul Getty Museum. |
provenance/payneheirs_getty/2 |
Auctions | The Getty acquired Lot 16 for $65,125,000. |
provenance/sharp_sale/1 |
Loans, Thefts, Losses and other Changes of Custody | A painting by Joseph Henry Sharp, "Cheyenne Oklahoma", was stolen from the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico and then sold (at auction) for $52,650 to an undisclosed buyer. |
provenance/spring_aic/1 |
Loans, Thefts, Losses and other Changes of Custody | Spring is lent by the Getty to the Art Institute of Chicago. |
provenance/spring_getty/1 |
Loans, Thefts, Losses and other Changes of Custody | |
provenance/transfer/1 |
Unknown Transfers | A painting is transferred between two people, however it is not clear whether it was permanent or merely a loan. |
provenance/unknown_faure/1 |
Object Provenance | Jean-Baptise Faure owned Spring after Proust (but not necessarily directly from Proust), before transferring it to the Galerie Durand-Ruel (Paris) in 1907. |
provenance/wiley_move/1 |
Object Location and Movement | The Kehinde Wiley painting "Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye" routinely moves between the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery |
provenance/yuag_stora/1 |
Object Acquisition and Loan | In 1962, the Yale University Art Gallery exchanged "Nude Woman" by Beckmann for "Personnages dans un parc" by Masson. |
provenance/yuag_ycba_wiley/1 |
Object Acquisition and Loan | The Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art jointly purchased a painting by Kehinde Wiley in 2021 from an undisclosed seller. |
provenance/ziwei_yuag/1 |
Object Provenance | Xu Ziwei gave her painting "Landscape" to Yale University Art Gallery in 1999 |