Sentence examples for acquired the work from inspiring English sources

Mr. Weiss acquired the work at auction in 2010 in Maastricht, the Netherlands; at the time, it had not been identified as a Tournier, but Mr. Weiss became convinced of its origins, he said in an interview, and contacted a Tournier expert at a museum in Toulouse, to which he hoped to sell the painting – the same museum, as it happens, from which it vanished two centuries before.

The museum acquired the work around 1838.

The Tate acquired the work as part of a two-year programme to spotlight contemporary African art.

Now, six years after Saatchi's epiphany at the White Cube Gallery, the Tate Gallery has acquired the work.

The Tate acquired the work with the help of a grant from the Art Fund charity, but has not revealed the price.

Her agent, Seth Fishman, is only 30, while her editor, Random House's Noah Eaker, was only 26 when he acquired the work.

The museum, which acquired the works in the 1950s, declined to comment because the case is being litigated.

It is not clear how he acquired the works, but he did know many W.P.A. art teachers.

The works fetched double their asking price when they were sold at Sotheby's in London by Wakefield girls' high school, which acquired the works decades ago.

The catalog documents how Maloof and his wife, Alfreda, acquired the works, "sometimes at a seemingly ravenous rate," the curator Harold B. Nelson writes.

In a letter written to Ms. Freedman in 2007, Ms. Rosales said the secret collector acquired the works on the advice of David Herbert, an art dealer who died in 1995.