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Rare ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ painting that hung in the White House for more than 40 years will be auctioned off and is expected to sell for $20million
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^
| April 24, 2022
| Stephen M. Lepore
Posted on 04/24/2022 8:30:10 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily
It is not an accurate depiction anyway. An account form my family was that Washington was wearing riding boots and wrapped in a blanket. He and the boat operator were the only ones on the boat.
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posted on
04/24/2022 9:59:00 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: simpson96
https://www.barrons.com/articles/christies-to-sell-washington-crossing-the-delaware-for-15-million-01650637684
…It had been on loan from an anonymous collector before it was sold privately to Mary Burrichter and her husband, Bob Kierlin, founders of the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. The couple subsequently loaned the work to the museum with the intention of it becoming part of the permanent collection, according to a March 2015 article in the Star Tribune of Minneapolis.
In a statement Friday, the museum said “the painting was not intended to be permanently added to the MMAM’s collection, despite it being reported otherwise in a 2015 article that was published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.”
Earlier, a spokeswoman at MMAM said the initial loan was finite and ended in March 2022, and was “part of our many rotating exhibitions of great art inspired by water.” She continued in an email, “The owner of this work has not shared with us their reasons to sell.”…
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posted on
04/24/2022 10:00:43 AM PDT
by
jjotto
( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
To: TontoKowalski
A billionaire should buy it and donate it to the National Gallery. MacKenzie Scott, for example. She is in the process of giving away multi-millions.
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posted on
04/24/2022 10:01:13 AM PDT
by
Cecily
To: Cecily
Can’t the O’Biden regime get a judge to stop the sale unless he gets his 10%?
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posted on
04/24/2022 10:11:27 AM PDT
by
subterfuge
(I'm a pure-blood!)
To: econjack; Cecily
Good question. I was thinking: “Will Hunter get a percentage of the sale price?”
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posted on
04/24/2022 10:11:47 AM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: GreyFriar
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posted on
04/24/2022 10:16:32 AM PDT
by
sport
To: FlingWingFlyer
“Who gets the money? “Da Big Guy”
Perhaps not all the Benjamins, but the usual
10 percent.
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posted on
04/24/2022 11:09:42 AM PDT
by
V K Lee
(Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistence by very wise men. A document unlike any other.)
To: Cecily
The ongoing communist purge knows no bounds...
Once again, the few Americans that are left will shrug their shoulders and continue grazing blissfully...
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posted on
04/24/2022 11:47:51 AM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
To: PeterPrinciple
Why wouldn’t the US government made the owner an offer to buy the painting that precluded an auction?
Bet Trump’s admin would have.
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posted on
04/24/2022 11:49:40 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Dibs on Churchill’s bust & Reagon’s portrait!
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posted on
04/24/2022 12:03:47 PM PDT
by
egfowler3
(Still a Deplorable, a Christian 'Infidel', an American patriot & 'a vast right-wing conspirator')
To: Cecily
The first version was destroyed during a World War Two air raid in Germany, said American Art specialist Paige Kestenman at Christie's New York. Unless it's in some German's basement or in a salt mind somewhere.
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posted on
04/24/2022 12:09:37 PM PDT
by
x
To: Leaning Right; ransomnote; Ymani Cricket
Coincidence?
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posted on
04/24/2022 2:02:22 PM PDT
by
bagster
("Even bad men love their mamas".)
To: bagster
Coincidence? Obviously.
Glad you woke up again.
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posted on
04/24/2022 2:17:13 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
To: Cecily
How much is the ‘big guy’s’ cut, again?
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posted on
04/24/2022 2:19:02 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
To: MHGinTN
Fedgov not involved. It has always been privately owned and loaned.
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posted on
04/24/2022 2:20:37 PM PDT
by
jjotto
( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
To: Cecily
How are they going to keep Putin or Xi from buying it?
To: jjotto
Has anyone checked to make sure Nixon’s cryptic message is not sealed under the backing?
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posted on
04/24/2022 2:26:47 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
To: bagster
It will be interesting to see who buys it for $20 million.
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posted on
04/24/2022 2:30:11 PM PDT
by
Ymani Cricket
("Fear kills more people than death" ~General George C. Patton)
To: MHGinTN
And there’s a cryptic message from Franklin Pierce under that…
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posted on
04/24/2022 2:30:26 PM PDT
by
jjotto
( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
To: Leaning Right
Which one in the painting is Brian Williams? Is he the guy with the oar just below the flag?
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