Anaford acted as legal counsel in the sale of a painting by Jan Verkade to the iconic Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The work entitled Herinnering [1893] was sold at auction at Sotheby's in London on 20 June 2018.
The price was £200,000, surpassing the estimate of £80,000-120,000.
"It's the first major painting by Verkade to be in the Rijksmuseum's collection," said Tiffany de Waynecourt-Steele, Of Counsel. "This serene painting by the Dutch artist will be on show this summer in Amsterdam."
Verkade was a key figure in Les Nabis, a post-impressionist group that formed at the end of the 1880s in Paris and Brittany and included Paul Serusier, Emile Bernard and Maurice Denis.
Click here to read the Sotheby's NEWSFLASH or here to download and read the Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Series Round-Up for June 2018 (documents require pdf reader software to be able to view).
Click here to read the Rijksmuseum comment (in Dutch) on the acquisition of 'Herinnering'.
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