Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To remove (an object) from a collection, especially in order to sell it and purchase other objects.
- intransitive verb To remove an object or objects from a collection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to sell (artwork); -- used of sales of art by museums.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To officially remove an object from a
museum ,art gallery orlibrary so that it may be sold. - noun The
disposal of objects in this way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works
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Examples
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If a museum has to sell -- or "deaccession" -- something, so says the 18,000-member American Association of Museums (of which the Rose is a member), the money should be used exclusively for the purchase of new objects for the collection.
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In what has become an all-too-common practice in the art world, this plan will include the sale, or "deaccession," of 50 works from the museum's permanent collection, among them a Jackson Pollock drawing valued at $300,000 to $500,000 and several Hudson River School and American Impressionist works with estimates ranging from $25,000 to $300,000, according to a prospectus prepared by Christie's.
Another Art Museum Puts Its Collection on the Block James Panero 2009
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Museums generally "deaccession" works of art to use the proceeds to buy other works of art, and the Board of Regents already prohibits some museums from selling art to cover other costs.
Gothamist 2010
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Next process is to link funds from deaccession to artworks acquired with funds from its sale.
Max Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 'Moving from virtual to visceral' Mia 2009
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Also put up db of works planning to deaccession as well as ones have deaccession.
Max Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 'Moving from virtual to visceral' Mia 2009
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It said the museum had satisfied its concerns by making a commitment "not to deaccession works in its collection as a means of generating operating support at any point in the future."
Sanctions Suspended For Academy Museum Erica Orden 2010
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Also put up db of works planning to deaccession as well as ones have deaccession.
Archive 2009-04-01 Mia 2009
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He has the uncomfortable feeling that he shilling for deaccession but they're really just trying to be transparent about process.
Max Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 'Moving from virtual to visceral' Mia 2009
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He has the uncomfortable feeling that he shilling for deaccession but they're really just trying to be transparent about process.
Archive 2009-04-01 Mia 2009
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Next process is to link funds from deaccession to artworks acquired with funds from its sale.
Archive 2009-04-01 Mia 2009
soden commented on the word deaccession
"My copy of The Concept of Benevolence by T. A. Roberts, in the series New Studies in Practical Philosophy, was deaccessioned from a university library."
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Ayn-Rand--engineer-of-souls-4385
February 3, 2010