Sentences with phrase «donations of masterpieces»

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Since then the collection has grown to incorporate an impressive number of gifts, donations and acquisitions, from Renaissance masterpieces to Tudor portraits, Victorian decorative arts to contemporary works.

American collectors Marlene and Spencer Hays have promised their entire collection of some 600 works of art to Paris's Musée d'Orsay, beginning with a donation of 187 French masterpieces from the turn of the 20th century.

The American collectors Marlene and Spencer Hays promised their entire collection of some 600 works of art to Paris's Musée d'Orsay, beginning with a donation of 187 French masterpieces from the turn of the 20th century.

Recent major donations have included the 2002 gift of 86 masterpieces of contemporary American art by eminent artists like Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol.

New and important additions are made to the Guggenheim Bilbao Collection, including a series of sixteen paintings by Georg Baselitz entitled Mrs Lenin and the Nightingale (2008), considered a masterpiece of European painting by the critics, and the sculpture Working Model for Government of the People (1967) by Jacques Lipchitz, thanks to a generous donation from The Jacques & Yulla Lipchitz Foundation.

The donation perfectly complemented the main Guggenheim collection by plugging important gaps, not least with her masterpieces of Surrealism and large - scale canvases by Jackson Pollock.

Known as the Guggenheim Collection, this donation contains many masterpieces of modern painting and is still on display in Venice.

They also must compete for possession of the masterpieces and other exhibitions that draw the most visitors — and in turn lead to more donations.