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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

The famous 'Washington Crossing the Delaware' painting, which hung in the White House from the 1970s to 2014, is coming up for auction next month, when it is estimated to fetch about $20million.

The 1851 oil painting is one of three versions painted by Emanuel Leutze of the man who was to be the first U.S. president leading troops during a key moment of the American revolution. Only two survive.

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.

'The second is the monumental work that is the centerpiece of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing, and the third is this work right here,' said Kestenman.

The version at New York's Met measures 12.4 feet-by-21.25 feet.

The painting up for sale on May 12 is smaller - about 3 feet-by-6 feet. It had hung for decades in the White House, mainly in the West Wing reception room.

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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.


41 posted on 04/24/2022 9:59:00 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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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.”…


42 posted on 04/24/2022 10:00:43 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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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.


43 posted on 04/24/2022 10:01:13 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Cecily

Can’t the O’Biden regime get a judge to stop the sale unless he gets his 10%?


44 posted on 04/24/2022 10:11:27 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: econjack; Cecily

Good question. I was thinking: “Will Hunter get a percentage of the sale price?”


45 posted on 04/24/2022 10:11:47 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

Yes.


46 posted on 04/24/2022 10:16:32 AM PDT by sport
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Who gets the money? “Da Big Guy”


Perhaps not all the Benjamins, but the usual
10 percent.


47 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.)
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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...


48 posted on 04/24/2022 11:47:51 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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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.


49 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.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Dibs on Churchill’s bust & Reagon’s portrait!


50 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')
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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.

51 posted on 04/24/2022 12:09:37 PM PDT by x
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To: Leaning Right; ransomnote; Ymani Cricket

Coincidence?

52 posted on 04/24/2022 2:02:22 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster
Coincidence?

Obviously.

Glad you woke up again.

53 posted on 04/24/2022 2:17:13 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: Cecily

How much is the ‘big guy’s’ cut, again?


54 posted on 04/24/2022 2:19:02 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

Fedgov not involved. It has always been privately owned and loaned.


55 posted on 04/24/2022 2:20:37 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Cecily

How are they going to keep Putin or Xi from buying it?


56 posted on 04/24/2022 2:21:03 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: jjotto

Has anyone checked to make sure Nixon’s cryptic message is not sealed under the backing?


57 posted on 04/24/2022 2:26:47 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: bagster

It will be interesting to see who buys it for $20 million.


58 posted on 04/24/2022 2:30:11 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket ("Fear kills more people than death" ~General George C. Patton)
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To: MHGinTN

And there’s a cryptic message from Franklin Pierce under that…


59 posted on 04/24/2022 2:30:26 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Leaning Right

Which one in the painting is Brian Williams? Is he the guy with the oar just below the flag?


60 posted on 04/24/2022 3:47:50 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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