LACMA Gifts: Cézanne to Simone Leigh
Lari Pittman, Maladies and Treatments , 1983. LACMA, anonymous gift LACMA continues to receive gifts of modern and contemporary art in advance of April's opening of the David Geffen Galleries. While the Perenchio and Pearlman donations are getting the most attention, a big tent of museum supporters have donated or funded works by Cézanne, Matisse, Calder, Ed Ruscha, Sherrie Levine, George Condo, and Simone Leigh. At top is a classic '80s Lari Pittman, Maladies and Treatments (in oil, acrylic, and gold leaf on paper, mounted on mahogany; 53-1/2 by 108 in.) The donor has defied a town of big egos by electing to remain anonymous. Paul Cézanne, Néréide et Tritons, about 1867. LACMA, gift of Robert and Mary M. Looker Family Trust The Robert and Mary Looker Family Trust has given LACMA two small paintings by big names: Cézanne and Matisse. The Cézanne, Néréide et Tritons , is one of the group of dark-toned sketchy homages/satires of Romanticism that the artist produced in th...
