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Canadian Minister Won’t Sell Art to Cut Budget

May 1, 2012 by Marion Maneker

Confusion and dismay broke out in the Canadian press yesterday as the nation’s foreign minister was chastised for considering a sale of a few pieces of his department’s art work to museums or other agencies as a cost-cutting measure. The minister now says there are no plans for a sale:

Among the paintings identified in the documents are:

  • A Jean Paul Riopelle oil painting valued at $300,000. It has apparently hung in Washington, D.C. since the 1950s.
  • Two works by Paul-Emile Borduas, an untitled piece and a 1953 work entitled “La Cathedral enguirlandee,” which hung in the embassy in Tunisia.
  • A painting by landscape artist Clarence Alphonse Gagnon, valued at $500,000.

The documents show that 494 so-called “high value” pieces owned by the department have a market value of about $18.7 million. The entire collection, which includes donated pieces that will not be sold, has a value of about $35 million.

Foreign Affairs says no art sale in the works (CTV)

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