Ask The Art Fund

The Art Fund is a mixed blessing. On the one hand it helps to save masterpieces for the nation. On the other hand it wastes money on dire tosh such as this mixed-media installation thingy from Turner Prize nominee Lucy Skaer: Leonora (2006-2008) which cost £35,997, to which The Art Fund contributed £13,000. The parquet flooring is the best bit, and I assume that was supplied by the gallery. Now, for the first time, you can visit The Art Fund website and search its new database Art Saved, which lists all 860,000 works the charity has helped to buy for the nation since its inception in 1903 (title link). Sounds like a lifetime's work. I'll leave it up to you.