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# Brooklyn Museum Acquires 96 Works and the Getty Gets Bronzes by Claudel and Rodin
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/transactions-brooklyn-museum-getty-claudel-rodin/
- Published: 2018-05-31T23:03:54.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:25:04.000Z
- Description: Plus a comic book collector donated more than 3,000 objects to the Library of Congress.
- Author: Benjamin Sutton
- Tags: News, Transactions, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

![Beverly Buchanan, "Untitled (Frustula Series)" (ca 1978), cast concrete, 20 x 10 x 16 in, Brooklyn Museum, gift of Arden Scott, 2017 (© Beverly Buchanan)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/brooklyn-museum-beverly-buchanan-acquisition.jpg)

Beverly Buchanan, “Untitled (Frustula Series)” (ca 1978), cast concrete, 20 x 10 x 16 in, Brooklyn Museum, gift of Arden Scott, 2017 (© Beverly Buchanan)

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![Betty Tompkins, "Fuck Painting #6" (1973), acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 in, Brooklyn Museum, gift of Robert Gober and Donald Moffett (© Betty Tompkins)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/brooklyn-museum-betty-tompkins-acquisition.jpg)

Betty Tompkins, “Fuck Painting #6” (1973), acrylic on canvas, 84 x 60 in, Brooklyn Museum, gift of Robert Gober and Donald Moffett (© Betty Tompkins)

To mark the culmination of its *A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism* program, the [**Brooklyn Museum**](https://d1lfxha3ugu3d4.cloudfront.net/press/docs/Year%5Fof%5FYes%5FAcquisitions%5FPress%5FRelease.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com) announced the acquisition of 96 works, including pieces by **Emma Amos**, the **Guerrilla Girls**, **Miriam Schapiro**, **Betty Tompkins**, **Andrea Bowers**, **Judy Chicago**, **Mary Beth Edelson**, **Nona Faustine**, **Deborah Kass**, **An-My Lê**, **Joan Semmel**, **Sylvia Sleigh**, **Joan Snyder**, **Nancy Spero**, **Jana Sterbak**, and **Martha Wilson**. The acquisitions include many works by artists who were featured in exhibitions that marked the 10th anniversary of the **Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art**, including **Beverly Buchanan**, **Marilyn Minter**, and **Betye Saar**.

Collector **Alicia Koplowitz** donated the painting “The Triumph of Love over War” (1784) by **Luis Paret y Alcázar** to the [**Bilbao Fine Arts Museum**](http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int%5Fsec=11&int%5Fnew=104981&ref=hyperallergic.com#.WxByg1MvxTZ).

![Camille Claudel, "Torso of a Crouching Woman" (model about 1884–85, cast by 1913), bronze, 35 x 27 x 26 cm (the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/getty-museum-claudel-acquisition.jpg)

Camille Claudel, “Torso of a Crouching Woman” (model about 1884–85, cast ca 1913), bronze, 35 x 27 x 26 cm (the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

The [**J. Paul Getty Museum**](http://news.getty.edu/j-paul-getty-aquires-french-bronze-sculptures-by-camille-claudel-and-auguste-rodin.htm?ref=hyperallergic.com) acquired two French bronzes: **Camille Claudel**‘s “Torso of a Crouching Woman” and **Auguste Rodin**‘s “Bust of John the Baptist.” “It is particularly gratifying to be able to acquire a major work by Claudel — Rodin’s student and lover — at a time when her achievement as an artist is receiving the recognition it deserves,” Timothy Potts, the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, said in a statement.

![Part of Stephen A. Geppi's collection on view at Geppi's Entertainment Museum, Baltimore, Maryland (photo by Shawn Miller)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/library-congress-comics-acquisition.jpg)

Part of Stephen A. Geppi’s collection on view at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, Baltimore, Maryland (photo by Shawn Miller)

Entrepreneur and comic book collector [**Stephen A. Geppi**](https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-18-072/?ref=hyperallergic.com) donated more than 3,000 objects from his personal collection to the [**Library of Congress**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2018/05/30/library-of-congress-acquires-its-largest-donation-of-comic-books-ever/?noredirect=on&utm%5Fterm=.e462c08f6720&ref=hyperallergic.com).

[**Bonhams Hong Kong**](http://www.bonhams.com/press%5Frelease/26135/?ref=hyperallergic.com) auction of Chinese ceramics and art brought in a total of $11.2 million. The sale’s star lot was an archaic jade ritual cong vessel from the Neolithic-era Liangzhu culture (3,300–2,250 BCE), which more than quadrupled its high estimate, selling for $2.8 million.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/christies-vase-philbrook-sale.jpg)

The Taber Family Tianqiuping from the Philbrook Museum of Art, which sold for $14.5 million at Christie’s Hong Kong (image courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd. 2018)

An ornate Chinese vase from the early 18th century that had been in the permanent collection of the [**Philbrook Museum of Art**](http://www.artfixdaily.com/news%5Ffeed/2018/05/30/1328-museum-sells-chinese-vase-from-storage-for-145-million?ref=hyperallergic.com) since 1960, but was rarely exhibited, sold for $14.5 million at **Christie’s** Hong Kong auction house.

The [**Dallas Museum of Art**](https://dma.org/press-release/dallas-museum-art-announces-transformative-addition-european-art-collection?ref=hyperallergic.com) acquired the monumental painting “The Descent from the Cross” (ca 1480–90) by the German artist **Derick Baegert**. The work is the museum’s first acquisition under the auspices of the Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund for pre-1700 European Art.

![Derick Baegert, "The Descent from the Cross" (ca 1480–90), Dallas Museum of Art, Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund in memory of Dr. William B. Jordan](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/05/dma-acquisition-derick-baegert.jpg)

Derick Baegert, “The Descent from the Cross” (ca 1480–90), Dallas Museum of Art, Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund in memory of Dr. William B. Jordan