Flea-market Renoir reignites tensions between museum and art donor’s descendants - The Washington Post

Flea-market Renoir reignites tensions between museum and art donor’s descendants - The Washington Post: ehind every museum’s art collection, behind every terse “Gift of” plaque on a museum wall, are the little-known, often fraught histories between museums and their donor families. On one hand, museums feel obligated to keep donor families happy so that other wealthy collectors might give but, on the other hand, feel entitled to exercise their curatorial judgment.