{"id":3895,"date":"2016-12-30T12:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T11:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2016-12-30T13:07:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T12:07:40","slug":"czartoryski-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/3895\/","title":{"rendered":"Czartoryski’s Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Polish government has bought a world-famous art collection, including a rare Leonardo da Vinci painting, for a fraction of its market value.<\/p>\n

The Czartoryski collection was sold for \u20ac100m ($105m; \u00a385m) despite being estimated at about \u20ac2bn.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The head of the Czartoryski family, which owned the collection, said it was a “donation”, but the board of its foundation resigned in protest.<\/p>\n

The Czartoryski Foundation’s management board said it was not consulted about the sale, which was negotiated between Poland’s culture ministry and Adam Karol Czartoryski, a descendent of Princess Izabela Czartoryska, who founded the collection in 1802.<\/p>\n

Mr Czartoryski, the foundation’s head, said he was following his ancestors who “always worked for the Polish nation”.<\/p>\n

“I felt like making a donation and that’s my choice,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have no idea how foundations work, let alone how this one worked, but I suspect\u00a0Mr Czartoryski (or his forebears) ceded partial control of the\u00a0Czartoryski Foundation to a board but retained certain rights, one of which was the right to flog the collection.<\/p>\n

The Czartoryski Foundation’s board of management said it did not oppose selling the collection to the government, but that it was concerned that selling without due diligence – including estimating a fair price – may be against its bylaws, Reuters reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It may be? \u00a0You’d have thought a board of management would know this, wouldn’t you? I suspect they are just pissed off they’ve been utterly bypassed by\u00a0Czartoryski and\/or stood to gain something should the collection have been sold at full price.<\/p>\n

Either way, it’s hard to see what Czartoryski has done wrong.<\/p>\n

Chairman Marian Wolkowski-Wolski told the news agency there was a risk of the collection’s eventual dispersal out of public control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Erm, it wasn’t in public control when it was part of the\u00a0Czartoryski Foundation. \u00a0What angle are you pushing here, madam?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is interesting: The Polish government has bought a world-famous art collection, including a rare Leonardo da Vinci painting, for a fraction of its market value. The Czartoryski collection was sold for \u20ac100m ($105m; \u00a385m) despite being estimated at about … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3899,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}