A good point, David.  In the same league as having "volunteers" who were
also dealers who busily helped the chief curator of the day "rationalize"
the collection of a national Canadian museum.

Harry

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----- Original Message -----
From: David E. Haberstich <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: Ethical question


> To expand a bit on the ethics question regarding spouses, what do people
> think of  the spouse of a curator functioning as a dealer in the same
field?
> Ordinarily this might not be a problem--assuming the curator is not a
> customer of the dealer spouse!--but I'm thinking of one situation a long
time
> ago when a curator who had served as a consultant to another museum helped
> that institution sell duplicates from its collection to other museums,
with
> the spouse serving as the dealer.  A lot of eyebrows were raised for years
> afterward over that arrangement.
>
> David Haberstich
>
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