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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deaccession .
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Examples
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Doing so would also break a cardinal rule in the museum profession -- that works of art can be sold ( "deaccessioned") only to purchase other works of art and never to cover operating expenses.
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Canada and Mexico, dictates that "funds received from the disposal of a deaccessioned work shall not be used for operations or capital expenses."
Sanctions Suspended For Academy Museum Erica Orden 2010
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He added that dealers and curators will negotiate the value of the object that the museum is offering in exchange, "or maybe they'll bring in an independent appraiser," and the item is deaccessioned in the same manner as any other in the museum's collection.
Daniel Grant: Museums Acquire Some Artworks Through Swaps Daniel Grant 2011
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It will join the permanent collection of the Albright-Knox, which recently — and infamously — deaccessioned a treasure trove of signature older masterworks and antiquities.
The Show That Ate Buffalo Lance Esplund 2010
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When information about one small Gérôme portrait explained that it was deaccessioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1956, I could almost hear this anecdote being told by Rupert Murdoch while he added "Some of my best friends are liberals!" ...
Mat Gleason: Is the Getty the Fox News of the Art World? 2010
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The Ransom Center, having recently celebrated its own 50th anniversary, will continue doing what it only seems to get better at: collecting and preserving the paper trails of many media, including the materials just deaccessioned by Magnum.
A Magnum Opus for Ransom Anne S. Lewis 2010
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The Ransom Center, having recently celebrated its own 50th anniversary, will continue doing what it only seems to get better at: collecting and preserving the paper trails of many media, including the materials just deaccessioned by Magnum.
A Magnum Opus for Ransom Anne S. Lewis 2010
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In time, it would all be sold or deaccessioned or snatched in spite of his wishes.
Beard 2010
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The Ransom Center, having recently celebrated its own 50th anniversary, will continue doing what it only seems to get better at: collecting and preserving the paper trails of many media, including the materials just deaccessioned by Magnum.
A Magnum Opus for Ransom Anne S. Lewis 2010
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When information about one small Gérôme portrait explained that it was deaccessioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1956, I could almost hear this anecdote being told by Rupert Murdoch while he added "Some of my best friends are liberals!" ...
Mat Gleason: Is the Getty the Fox News of the Art World? 2010
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