LACMA Debuts Perenchio Collection
Installation view, "The A. Jerrold Perenchio Collection of Impressionist and Modern Art" In 2014 TV executive A. Jerrold Perenchio (1930–2017) promised the core of his collection of Impressionist and Modern art to LACMA. At the time the coverage focused on the financial value of the gift, estimated at half a billion dollars and said to the be museum's largest ever. LACMA followed up the next year with an installation of six Perenchio works on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Among them was Degas' At the Café-Concert: Song of the Dog , a prized gouache/pastel/monotype. LACMA published a catalog of the full Perenchio collection in 2016. But the works remained unseen by the public until the Geffen's opening. One deep-red room is showing nearly all the Perenchio paintings and sculptures and a few drawings. In his varied career "Jerry" Perenchio managed recording artists and promoted prize fights (Muhammad Ali v. George Frasier, 1971). He co-produced a...
