The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Steven Litt reveals that the museum has been on a European buying spree. Among other works, the museum bid heavily on a Expressionist work finally taking it home for more than twice the low estimate:
The Cleveland Museum of Art announced that it was the mystery buyer at the Ketterer Kunst auction house in Munich earlier this month that paid $320,174 to buy an apocalyptic vision of war painted by the German Expressionist Heinrich Maria Davringhausen. The painting headlines a group of June acquisitions that includes works of art from France, China, Japan, pre-Columbian Latin America, plus contemporary items. All were approved this month by the museum’s board of trustees.
Cleveland Museum of Art says it was mystery buyer of Davringhausen “War” painting (cleveland.com)