Academy sells Eakins painting
From the Associated Press
To help finance a $68 million deal to keep Thomas Eakins’ masterpiece “The Gross Clinic” in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has sold another Eakins painting, “The Cello Player,” academy officials said.
One of the academy’s most recognizable artworks, the large 1896 oil portrait shows cellist Rudolf Henning with his instrument.
Herbert Riband, academy board vice chairman, said he did not know the identity of the buyer and declined to disclose the price paid for the painting.
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