After an eight-month investigation, the National Museum of Australia has given the all clear to a contentious $1.3 million painting donated to the institution in 2020.
in which several experts questioned the work’s quality, excessive valuation, provenance and mysterious 18-year absence from the public eye.But the museum’s internal review, conducted by deputy director Stephanie Bull, has found no evidence to give cause for concern about any of these matters. The NMA’s director Dr Matthew Trinca toldhe was satisfied with the report’s findings, which also confirmed that the museum undertook due diligence before accepting the painting for donation.
In a highly controversial move, the NMA is now challenging what it describes as the “contested approaches” in the art sector regarding what constitutes “correctly provenanced” artworks, and will conduct further research on this front next year. Respected Melbourne art dealer Lauraine Diggins bought the work from the WA collector in 2017, with the sale “facilitated through Maxine Taylor”, the museum states. The NMA would not reveal the price paid for the painting by Diggins in 2017.
Interestingly, for a painting that one of the NMA’s valuers described as Thomas’s “magnum opus”, no cultural institution came forward to buy the painting at that time.Jabanunga
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