“I am sure you have seen this
story by Mark Stryker on the $100M sale of a Cezanne by the Edsel and Eleanor
Ford House by now.
“I await someone’s lucid explanation of why this is
OK, but Randolph College’s sale of Men of the Docks in order to raise
funds for the college’s endowment puts us in Dante’s Ninth Circle of
Hell. Could we have a full explanation of the hierarchy of permissible
and impermissible deaccessions? I think we should be told.”
