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Kimbell Returns Turner Painting to Heirs of Original Owner |
| Section: THE ARTS / PERSPECTIVES |
| Author: The Kimbell Art Museum |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 944 Words, 5,805 Characters |
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The Kimbell Art Museum has returned Joseph Mallord William Turner’s painting Glaucus and Scylla (1841) to the heirs of John and Anna Jaffé. The painting, which has been in the Kimbell’s collection since 1966, was returned as the result of discussions over recent months between the Museum and Alain Monteagle, the representative of the Jaffé heirs. Since 2004, Monteagle has conducted an investigation into the provenance of the Kimbell Turner, as he has done with other paintings in various museums and private collections since determining that the Jaffé collection was u...
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...years that the Turner was at the Kimbell, periodic attempts were made to decipher the message written in the lower-left corner--now under the frame--by the artist’s panel maker. Thanks to new technology, we are able to transcribe this more fully than ever before (see caption above left), although in true Turnerian fashion some parts remain indistinct.
Copyright © 2006 The Kimbell Art Museum
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