Amedeo Modigliani’s “Jean Cocteau” (1916) was gifted to the Brooklyn Museum as a part of a significant donation. (all images by Bruce White, courtesy the Brooklyn Museum)
A 1916 portrait of the French poet, artist, and mental Jean Cocteau painted by Amedeo Modigliani is amongst a trove of works headed to the Brooklyn Museum as a part of a significant present from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Basis. Together with the Museum of Trendy Artwork (MoMA) in Manhattan and the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork (LACMA), the establishment is about to obtain dozens of contemporary, Impressionist, and Publish-Impressionist artworks.
The inspiration’s whole assortment of 63 items, which incorporates work by Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Edgar Degas, might be distributed among the many three establishments, the group introduced in the present day, August 4.
The gathering was amassed by the late Henry Pearlman, the founding father of a chilly storage set up firm that rose to prominence within the Forties, and his spouse Rose. In a press assertion, the muse stated the present was made within the spirit of the couple’s “populist values” of sharing their assortment for the enjoyment of the general public. The gathering has been on mortgage to the Princeton College Artwork Museum since 1976.
Paul Cézanne, “Mont Sainte-Victoire” (c. 1904–06), gifted to MoMA
The Pearlman Basis stated it allotted its present based on the capabilities and priorities of every establishment. The Brooklyn Museum will obtain 29 assortment gadgets, together with sculptures and work by French Expressionist Chaïm Soutine and works by Paul Gauguin. A complete of 28 items will head to the MoMA, primarily by Cézanne, together with works from the sequence Mont Sainte-Victoire (1902–6). The inspiration’s president, Daniel Edelman, stated the group entrusted Cézanne’s works to the MoMA as a result of it has “one of the finest departments of drawings and prints that we know.”
LACMA will obtain a smaller present of six artworks, together with van Gogh’s 1888 portray “Tarascon Stagecoach” (1888), the primary piece by the Dutch artist to enter the musuem’s assortment.
Vincent van Gogh’s “Tarascon Stagecoach” (1888), gifted to LACMA
Earlier than heading to the everlasting collections of the three main museums, the Pearlman works will journey to each coasts in an exhibition titled Village Sq.: Presents of Trendy Artwork from the Pearlman Assortment. From February to July 2026, the present might be on view at LACMA earlier than touring to the Brooklyn Museum within the fall and to MoMA at a later date, which has not but been introduced.
“Our aim is to bring these major works to new audiences, allowing them to be seen in different contexts, reuniting our collection’s works with one another on a regular basis, and perhaps even inspiring collectors and museums to consider new models for ownership of art,” the muse’s president Daniel Edelman stated within the assertion.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “The Sacred Grove (Le bois sacré)” (1884), gifted to the Brooklyn Museum
Maurice Brazil Prendergast, “Sea and Boats,” (c. 1907), gifted to LACMA
Paul Cézanne, “Three Pears (Trois poires)” (c. 1888–90), gifted to MoMA
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, “Torso of a Young Woman” (1910), gifted to LACMA
