The Art Business Magazine  has just published a short piece on
"Lessons from the Denney Collection"

Editor's introduction:-
http://www.culturenet.ca/artbusiness/featurone.html
Article: -
http://www.culturenet.ca/artbusiness/denneycollection.html

EXTRACT FROM EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION:

Antony Anderson contacted ABM earlier this year to tell us about the
unhappy conditions surrounding the loan of Anthony Denney's collection
to the Dallas Museum of Art. In the following article, Dr. Anderson
presents a well documented account of what happened to the 23 works of
modern art -- by Appel, Burri, Dubuffet, Fontana, Mathieu, and others
-- upon the sudden death of Mr. Denney. Dr. Anderson's purpose in
relating this story is to increase awareness in the minds of
collectors and museum workers of certain pitfalls in the loans
process. He first published his research as part of a Seminar put on
by the Institute of Art and Law in May 1996 in London.
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EXTRACT FROM ART BUSINESS MAGAZINE ARTICLE:

This cautionary tale of Art and Law begins about two weeks after
Denney's sudden death (April 30th 1990) when the DMA received a letter
instructing them to transfer the collection to the Museum of Modern
Art in Toulouse. The letter was signed "Anthony Denney" and dated 27th
April, three days before his death.
A second letter updating the insurance values dated 22nd August was
to follow, also signed "Anthony Denney". The writer excused the
inevitable delay in replying claiming to have just come back from
holiday!
Dallas, not knowing the real Denney was dead, arranged the shipment
as requested and Toulouse paid the insurance and transport costs. On
arrival in Toulouse the pictures were hidden for the time being.
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FURTHER READING:
http://www.culturenet.ca/artbusiness/featurone.html
http://www.culturenet.ca/artbusiness/denneycollection.html
http://museum-security.org/denney.html

Several times both the Dallas Museum of Art and the City of Toulouse
have been asked  to send comments to the Museum Security Network.
Unfortunately this far without result. We regret not to be able to
present their opinions on this matter.

Ton Cremers









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