Matsukata Collection, List of Items Burnt in London Discovered

number:05314
years:September 2016

On September 5, the National Museum of Western Art, which houses part of the Matsukata Collection, announced that a list of artworks that were destroyed in a fire in London in 1939 had been discovered. The Matsukata Collection was consisted of over ten thousand artworks collected by a businessman, MATSUKATA Kōjiro. The list was identified in February in Tate Archive, located at Tate Britain, in which 953 artworks were listed, including paintings by Édouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh and plaster figures by Auguste Rodin. (Japanese)

created: 19/08/2024
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