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Sotheby’s approaches many English councils offering appreciation of their art collections, in a step-by-law of critics can sell valuable public assets.

A letter from the House’s Auction House’s Tax of Heritage and UK Museums Department has been sent to January offered in the value of their primary work “- even if it also does not have a study of work” – even if it also does not study at the council at previous councils in previous councils.

Many local governments have owned many art collections shown in museums and other council owned goods or stored in storage.

Councils face steep cuts to public services or higher taxes as they struggle with chopped financials to see bankruptcy.

Maurice Davis, a Consultant of Cultural Courtes, said it was “as Sotheby tried to think about what the assets they could have to be subdued”.

Sotheby’s It is also forced to increase self-esteem, according to people who have its business knowledge, after one year where global sales fall in a quarter.

“Sotheby’s should be more desperate if they go around the free valuation of the Public Collections to V & A in the V & A of the Interim Director of the British Museum in the British Museum in the British Museum in the British Museum last year.

The two directors of the Museum of the Region warned that the council’s sales owned artwork could betray the originals that gave them, and also prevent future gifts.

“Public collections are at the center of a successful community,” Simon Wallis said, Director of Hepworth Sumfolle, a council-backed gallery.

“If the acts of trying to ease financial deficiencies for local authorities, the public permanently lose a significant government resource to continue without change.”

Leeds City Council – Which Owns Leeds Art Gallery That Houses Pre-Raphaelite Works by John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, Paintings by Stanley Spencer, Francis Bacon and Ls Lowry, and Sculptures by Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth – Sotheby’s “But Have not responded, Nor do we intend to “.

Sotheby also wrote in Derby City Council, which was handed over the run of the Derby Museum and Art Gallery of an independent confidence in goodness. The collection of paintings at the 18th-century artist Joseph Wright by Derby valued at the Auction House of Insurance Purposes in 2012.

It also contacts Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, Calderdale, Calddale, Horsham, Horshourne and Eastbourne and Eastbourne and Eastbourne and Eastbourne and Eastbourne and Eastbourne as well as Norfolk County Council, which runs 10 museums.

Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire – who is also contacted – forced to plan on the sale of a princely Bacon Society of Hudders

Kirklees and Calderdale said they rejected Sotheby’s offer. Horsham said it could participate in “the future” in the future “. Other councils do not say how they respond, and refused to comment further.

In 2014 The Atts Council was in the Northampton Borough Museum at the Council and Art Gallery of its accreditation after an ancient Egyptian statue in a scribe of £ 15.8mmp. Step means it is not worthy of a different public fund, and the institution only recovers the accreditation of eight years ago.

Sotheby says “negotiated with local authorities to offer a variety of services including valuing, tax, handling heritage, and collection

It adds: “Many authorities accept spies for insurance purposes. Uncategorized withdrawal programs with the dismissal programs, plague, and other initiatives.”