Journal for Art Market Studies (JAMS)
The Journal for Art Market Studies (JAMS) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal for current international research on the art market of all periods. The articles are published in English.
Published by
Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies
www.fokum-jams.org
TWELFTH ISSUE
Museums Trading on the Art Market
Volume 6, Number 1, 2022

Collage of images used in the issue’s articles, Design: Amichai Green Grafik.
Guest Editor: Helene Tello
This issue deals with museums selling on the art market. European museums were historically much less opposed to selling than we are currently led to believe. As the museum – an institution from the nineteenth century – needs to face the challenges of the twenty-first, a discussion on this sensitive topic becomes conceivable.
Table of Contents
Susanne Meyer-Abich
Editorial
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Helene Tello
Introduction
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Manuela Fischer
Multiple suppliers in permeable spaces. Ethnographic collecting at the end of the nineteenth century
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Beatrix Hoffmann-Ihde
From museum objects to trading goods: the ethnographic doublet
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Iñigo Salto Santamaría
The Nuremberg Ivory at Dumbarton Oaks
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Birgit Jooss
Political Motive, Directorial Access, and an Opportunity for the Art Trade: How Two Paintings from the Munich Pinakothek Made their Way to the US
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Jörn Grabowski
In the Absence of Foreign Currency: The Acquisition of “Samson Blinded” by Lovis Corinth. From the Central Archive of the Staatliche Museen Berlin
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Alice Minter
The Gilbert Collection. The Quest for the Best
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Dorothea Schöne, Thomas Köhler, Christopher Bedford
To Sell or Not to Sell? A Transatlantic Debate
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