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"We have come up with a short list of
about 15 to 20 artists, and we are working
assiduously on trying to bring them into the
collection. Most of them are achieving such
high figures now that we don't have a hope
in hell of buying them."
—Sheena Wagstaff
Clockwise from top left: Alice Neel's James Hunter Black Draftee, 1965, and
Rembrandt's The Great Jewish Bride, 1635, both from "Unfinished: Thoughts Left
Visible"; Nasreen Mohamedi's Untitled, 1975; Adolph Menzel's Altar in a
Baroque Church, 1880-1890.
IMAGES
COURTESY
THE
METROPOLITAN
MUSEUM
OF
ART;
ALTE
NATIONALGALERIE;
DAVID
ZWIRNER,
NEW
YORK/LONDON
