Buffalo’s Artemis Now at the Metropolitan Museum
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“Artemis and the Stag,” an ancient Roman bronze sculpture that was sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in a controversial auction at Sotheby’s last June, is now on exhibit in the Greek and Roman galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the blogger CultureGrrl (aka Lee Rosenbaum) reported on Monday. The Met confirmed that the statue is on loan from a private collection but declined to identify the lender.
The statue sold at Sotheby’s for $28.6 million, at the time the highest price ever paid for a sculpture or an antiquity at auction. The London dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi said after the auction that he bought the statue on behalf of a private European collector. Despite opposition from its members, the Albright-Knox, located in Buffalo, sold 207 older works to raise money to purchase contemporary art. The museum raised a total of $67.2 million.
