A Modern Patronage
Subtitle: de Menil Gifts to American and European Museums (Menil Collection)
Publisher: The Menil Collection
Published: June 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780300123791
Subjects: Art styles not limited by date; Exhibition catalogues and specific collections; Art; Art & Art Instruction; General; Art / General; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Museum Administration and Museology; Art donors; Art patronage; Collectors and collecting
Description: "This illustrated book showcases some of the fifty works that the de Menils acquired over the decades, including pieces by such major twentieth-century artists as Lee Bontecou, Christo, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Jackson Pollock, Jean Tinguely, and Andy Warhol, as well as an important group of African, Oceanic, and pre-Columbian works."--Jacket.