Tate fundraising retains a Turner

Britain’s Tate Gallery has raised almost $9.8 million to keep a watercolor by 19th century landscape painter J.M.W. Turner in the country. “The Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne, Sunrise” was sold to an anonymous buyer in June at Christie’s auction house for $11.4 million, but the British government temporarily suspended its sale to give the gallery time to raise money to buy it. Under British law, the culture department can temporarily ban the export of a work considered a national treasure. This year, the Tate failed to obtain another painting in the series, “The Dark Rigi: Lake of Lucerne.”