Met Museum Quietly Hangs a Leonardo da Vinci Painting, On Loan from Ken Griffin: ‘A Little Picture, Of Large-Scale Importance’
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Met Museum Quietly Hangs a Leonardo da Vinci Painting, On Loan from Ken Griffin: ‘A Little Picture, Of Large-Scale Importance’
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art hung a Leonardo da Vinci painting on loan from Ken Griffin on its wall this spring, without even announcing it.
A Rare Leonardo da Vinci Painting Goes on View at the Met—With Remarkably Little Fanfare
Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna of the Yarnwinder, ca. 1501. Until recently, there was only one work by Leonardo da Vinci publicly on view in the United States: Ginevra de’ Benci at the National Gallery of Art, hung behind glass on a plinth denoting its significance as of one of the country’s great masterworks. Now, a second Leonardo has appeared, with surprisingly little fanfare, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The painting has been q…
No one hangs a Leonardo in a gallery like the one who hangs an anodyne landscape. That is why he has surprised that the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York installed the Madonna of the Huso without issuing any press release. The board, just half a metre high, belongs to billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, founder of the hedge fund Citadel and a fixed figure in the Top 200 collectors of ARTnews. The attribution, backed by Oxford professor Martin K…
The painting “The Madonna of the Yarnwinder” comes from the collection of billionaire hedge funder and ARTnews Top 200 collector Kenneth S. Griffin
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