{"id":119202,"date":"2025-08-04T21:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119202\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:46:13","slug":"modernist-masterpieces-go-to-moma-lacma-brooklyn-in-pearlman-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/119202\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernist Masterpieces Go to MoMA, LACMA, Brooklyn in Pearlman Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Henry and Rose\u00a0Pearlman\u00a0Foundation will disperse every artwork under its ownership to three museums: the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOf the 63 works in the gift, 29 are headed to the Brooklyn Museum, 28 will go to MoMA, and 6 will be directed to LACMA. Across the gift are modernist jewels: paintings by Paul C\u00e9zanne, Amedeo Modigliani, Vincent van Gogh, \u00c9douard Manet, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSome of those works had been on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey. But they have now found a permanent home in these three institutions, which rank among the top in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn a statement, Daniel Edelman, the foundation\u2019s president, said, \u201cRather than put conditions on the gift that would become limiting in a future that none of us can know, we created a set of guidelines to encourage these three institutions to collaborate on a flexible movement of the art among them. Our aim is to bring these major works to new audiences, allowing them to be seen in different contexts, reuniting our collection\u2019s works with one another on a regular basis, and perhaps even inspiring collectors and museums to consider new models for ownership of art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAn exhibition devoted to the collection will open at LACMA in July 2026 and travel to the Brooklyn Museum afterward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBelow, a look at nine works from the gift.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"pmc-fallback-list-items lrv-a-unstyle-list lrv-u-margin-t-2\">\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<p>\tPaul C\u00e9zanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, ca. 1904\u201306<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A painting of a mountain looming above a hilly landscape.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/L1988-62-5-1609x2000-1.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Bruce White\/Museum of Modern Art, promised gift from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Given to: MoMA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tC\u00e9zanne produced around 30 paintings of Mont Sainte-Victoire, making them exceptionally valuable within his oeuvre. Prior to the gift, MoMA only owned a watercolor sketch depicting the mountain, which C\u00e9zanne renders in his famed proto-Cubist way, fracturing its peak and various inclines into mismatched shapes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<p>\tPaul C\u00e9zanne, Cistern in the Park of Ch\u00e2teau Noir, ca. 1900<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A painting of a wooded landscape.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/L1988-62-4-1633x2000-1.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Bruce White\/Museum of Modern Art, promised gift from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Given to: MoMA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tC\u00e9zanne is famous for his paintings of his hometown of Aix-en-Provence and its surroundings. This work depicts a cistern that C\u00e9zanne spotted on a road near the city on the grounds of the Ch\u00e2teau Noir, a neo-Gothic castle that the artist repeatedly returned to in his work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<p>\tPaul C\u00e9zanne, Study of a Skull (Etude de cr\u00e2ne), 1902\u20134<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A watercolor sketch of a skull.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/L1988-62-36-2000x1465-1.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Bruce White\/Museum of Modern Art, promised gift from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Given to: MoMA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMoMA\u2019s acclaimed 2021 exhibition \u201cC\u00e9zanne Drawing\u201d focused specifically on the artist\u2019s works on paper, which are less well-known than his paintings. This pencil and watercolor drawing of a skull figured in that exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<p>\tHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Sacred Grove, 1884<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A painted landscape showing people in various states of undress in a park.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brooklyn-Museum-_-Henri-de-Toulouse-Lautrec-The-Sacred-Grove-Le-bois-sacre-1884.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce White\/Brooklyn Museum, Promised Gift of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Given to: Brooklyn Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThough well-known for his lurid images of French bars and nightlife during the late 19th-century, Toulouse-Lautrec also produced such as this one, which is more quaint than it might first appear. It\u2019s intentionally meant to mock the works of Puvis de Chavannes, who produced a similar painting that did not feature the parade of modern men on the righthand side.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<p>\tVincent van Gogh, Tarascon Stagecoach, 1888<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A painting of a stagecoach.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LACMA-_-Vincent-van-Gogh-Tarascon-Stagecoach-1888.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce White\/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Promised Gift of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Given to: LACMA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNow the only van Gogh painting in LACMA\u2019s collection, this work is meant to picture a means of transportation that was quickly growing outmoded in modern France. The work was inspired by the 1872 novel Tartarin de Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<p>\tEdgar Degas, After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself, 1890s<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A painting of a nude woman drying herself with a towel.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brooklyn-Museum-_-Edgar-Degas-After-the-Bath-Woman-Drying-Herself-1890s.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce White\/Brooklyn Museum, Promised Gift of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Given to: Brooklyn Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThough better known for his paintings of ballet dancers, Degas also made images of nude bathers that did not idealize their subjects, as many painters before him did. Shown from behind, this bather appears unnaturally pitched over her tub.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<p>\tWilhelm Lehmbruck, Torso of a Young Woman, 1910<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A sculpture of a nude woman.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/LACMA-_-Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Torso-of-a-Young-Woman-1910.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce White\/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Promised Gift of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Given to: LACMA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLehmbruck was acclaimed for the ways he took up classical representations of the human body and distorted them, elongating arms, legs, and heads for works that bespoke a sense of alienation unique to his era. This is the first Lehmbruck sculpture to enter LACMA\u2019s collection. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<p>\tChaim Soutine, Path to the Fountain, ca. 1920<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A painting of buildings beside a bent tree.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brooklyn-Museum-_-Chaim-Soutine-Chemin-de-la-Fontaine-des-Tins-at-Ceret-ca.-1920.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce White\/Brooklyn Museum, Promised Gift of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Given to: Brooklyn Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSoutine often left his paint strokes thick and chunky, creating surfaces that felt as rugged as the material he was representing. This painting depicts the small French town of C\u00e9ret, whose angular streets may have inspired the work\u2019s unusual composition.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pmc-fallback-list-item-wrap lrv-u-margin-b-2\">\n<p>\tAmedeo Modigliani, Jean Cocteau, 1916<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"A painted portrait of a man in a suit seated in a high-backed chair.\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brooklyn-Museum-_-Amedeo-Modigliani-Jean-Cocteau-1916.jpg\" data-lazy- data-lazy-\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Bruce White\/Brooklyn Museum, Promised Gift of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Given to: Brooklyn Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJean Cocteau, a multi-hyphenate modernist whose work was itself the subject of a recent retrospective, gets the typical Modigliani treatment here, with a long face and almond-shaped eyes. \u201cIt does not look like me, but it does look like Modigliani, which is better,\u201d Cocteau said of the work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Henry and Rose\u00a0Pearlman\u00a0Foundation will disperse every artwork under its ownership to three museums: the Museum of Modern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,74368,1033,171,74369,74370,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-119202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-brooklyn-museum","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-los-angeles-county-museum-of-art","14":"tag-museum-of-modern-art","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114972694341238871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}