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Acquisition file

1 May 1929-1 Apr 1937

Title

Acquisition file

Date

1 May 1929-1 Apr 1937

Archive reference number

NG14/77/1

Description

This file comprises correspondence with Robert Witt of the National Art Collections Fund, Sir Joseph Duveen, the Right Honourable Ramsay MacDonald and Felix M. Warburg re the latter's loan and eventual gift of his Pesellino predella pieces to the Gallery.

Record type

File

Paintings referenced in this record

Related material

See NG26/123 for extensive correspondence between Daniel [Director] and Witt re the loan of the predella pieces to the Gallery and their return to Warburg following the failure of a Parliamentary bill to alter the terms of the 1883 Loan Act to enable the NG to lend works overseas, a condition of Warburg's proposed offer in 1929

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