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The Getty Will Get Its Turner

February 4, 2011 by Marion Maneker

The Los Angeles Times reports that the UK government has granted an export license for W.M.F. Turner’s Modern Rome–Camp Vaccino which the Getty had bought at auction for nearly $45 million:

An agent for the Getty picked up the export license that seals the deal for “Modern Rome — Campo Vaccino” from the British culture ministry at the opening of business Thursday, said David Bomford, the museum’s acting director, and a copy of the certificate arrived by e-mail in the middle of the night.

With that, the museum cleared a hurdle it had tripped over in failed attempts to complete past high-profile purchases from Great Britain.

Under British law, artworks of “special significance” that have been on British soil for more than 50 years can’t be sold and exported without a license — and if a buyer surfaces in Britain who is willing to match what the foreign buyer was willing to pay, that institution or individual gets to cut in like a suitor at a dance, and walk away with the object of affection.

Getty Museum’s $44.9-million purchase of J.M.W. Turner masterpiece is final as sale clears U.K. export hurdle (Los Angeles Times)

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