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  • The Lives of Art: Provenance Stories from the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s Collection

The Lives of Art: Provenance Stories from the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s Collection

Sunday, January 26, 2025, 10:00 AM – Saturday, January 31, 2026, 5:00 PM

Focus Galleries, Jane Fortune and Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Galleries, European and American Art, 1st Floor
A still life composed of a lobster, grapes, melon, oranges, shellfish, and a gleaming silverware set on a table fills most of the painting. The surrounding canvas is dark.
Pieter de Ring (Dutch, ca. 1615–1660). Still Life with Lobster, ca. 1650. Oil on canvas, 35 ¼ x 46 in. (89.5 x 116.8 cm). Eskenazi Museum of Art, 73.22

This two-part focus exhibition, on view in both first floor permanent collection galleries, sheds light on the research undertaken in conjunction with the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s Nazi-Era Provenance Research Project. The fascinating provenance (ownership) histories of nine paintings in the permanent collection are revealed through the sources and methods used by provenance researchers: photographs, archival documents, and the labels and inscriptions found on the works themselves. Provenance research is crucial to the museum’s mission. It helps ensure that we are the legitimate owners of works in the collection, and enables us better understand the objects themselves.

Funding for this exhibition is provided by the IU Institute for European Studies, a Jean Monnet EU Centre of Excellence.

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