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de-accession, v. Chiefly U.S.|diːækˈsɛʃən|
[f. de- II. 1 + accession v.]
trans. To remove an entry for (an exhibit, book) from the accessions register of a museum, library, etc., usu. in order to sell the item concerned. Also absol.
1972N.Y. Times 27 Feb. ii. 21/2 The Museum of Art recently de-accessioned (the polite term for ‘sold’) one of its only four Redons. 1973Time 26 Feb. 43/2 ‘De-accessioning’ pictures—the barbaric museum jargon for preparing to sell. 1974J. Goldman Man from Greek & Roman v. 33 You deaccessioned, you took something off your shelves and sold it. 1981Times 16 Feb. 4/1 The sale of Japanese art included a group of 38 lots of Japanese lacquer ‘recently de-accessioned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York’. 1987London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 5/4 Curators may soon be tempted to start..‘de-accessioning’ what their recent predecessors have..acquired.
Hence as n., the act or process of de-accessioning; de-acˈcessioned ppl. a., de-acˈcessioning vbl. n.
1973Newsweek 29 Jan. 76 Richard F. Brown, director of Fort Worth's Kimbell Museum of Art, felt that..the ‘principle’ of de-accession is right although he might ‘disagree with the particular object chosen for de-accession’. 1973Art in Amer. Jan.–Feb. 24 In order to illustrate..Mr. Hoving's policy, he should show all the de-accessioned works. 1973New Yorker 31 Mar. 83/1 Money gained through sales—or ‘de-accessioning’, in museum parlance—is often used for acquisitions. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Dec. 1604/2 The acquisition by Mellon from the Hermitage of famous paintings... This early twentieth-century instance of sensational ‘de-accessioning’ as it was to be uneuphoniously called by later adepts of the technique. |