Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art

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In 1977 it paid 182 million yen at a New York auction for Millet's The Sower.

Opened in 1978, the museum is known in Japan as ‘the Millet museum’: it owns 41 works by the French painter, spanning paintings, watercolours, drawings and prints, among them The Sower and The Gleaners, Summer. The collection also numbers about 10,000 works by other artists, from the Barbizon school (Corot included) to Chagall, plus 4,800 prints donated by the local printmaker Hagiwara Hideo.

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.

ℹ️ Open 9:00–17:00 (last entry 16:30). Ticket: 520 yen adults, free for high school students and seniors.

🚉 Ryuo · 25 min walk

Sources: ja.wikipedia.org

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