Sentences with phrase «museum into possession»

In 1922, the landmark bequest of Dr. Walter Kaesbach, a native of Mönchen - gladbach, brought the museum into possession of an outstanding collection of expressionist art and established its profile as a contemporary art museum.

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PARIS — Bridget Riley's retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris opens with landscape drawings from the 1950s, passes through the Op Art with which she became famous, soars into the big lusciously colored abstracts of recent years and ends with a wall painting which the curator sees as a homage to the museum's prize possession, «La Danse» by MaMuseum of the city of Paris opens with landscape drawings from the 1950s, passes through the Op Art with which she became famous, soars into the big lusciously colored abstracts of recent years and ends with a wall painting which the curator sees as a homage to the museum's prize possession, «La Danse» by Mamuseum's prize possession, «La Danse» by Matisse.