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A modern patronage : de Menil gifts to American and European museums

Title
A modern patronage : de Menil gifts to American and European museums / Marcia Brennan, Alfred Pacquement, Ann Temkin ; with an introduction by Josef Helfenstein.
Author
Brennan, Marcia.
Publication
Houston, Tex. : Menil Foundation ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Pacquement, Alfred.
  • Temkin, Ann.
  • Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
Description
120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
Summary
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Alternative Title
De Menil gifts to American and European museums
Subject
  • Menil, John de > Art collections > Exhibitions
  • Menil, Dominique de > Art collections > Exhibitions
  • Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) > Exhibitions
  • Art > Collectors and collecting > Houston
Note
  • Catalog of the exhibition held at the de Menil Collection, Houston, June 8-Sept. 16, 2007.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Seeing the unseen : James Johnson Sweeney and the de Menils / Marcia Brennan -- Sharing a vision : the de Menils and the modern / Ann Temkin -- Dynamism is contagious : Dominique de Menil and the birth of the Centre Pompidou / Alfred Pacquement -- List of plates.
ISBN
  • 9780300123791 (hbk.)
  • 0300123795 (hbk.)
LCCN
2006936664
OCLC
  • ocm80331811
  • 80331811
  • SCSB-9253150
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries