Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art 山梨県立美術館
In 1977 it paid 182 million yen at a New York auction for Millet's The Sower.
Public museum of Yamanashi Prefecture, opened on 3 November 1978 in Geijutsu no Mori Park in Kōfu. The Sower was bought in 1977, together with another work, at a New York auction for 182 million yen, a purchase that made the news in Japan, for a prefecture that still had no public museum.
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