"Village Square" at LACMA
Chaim Soutine, View of Céret, about 1921-1922. Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, promised gift to Brooklyn Museum LACMA has opened "Village Square: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection to the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, and MoMA." As regular readers of this blog will know, Henry and Rose Pearlman's collection was on loan to Princeton University Art Gallery for half a century. Nearly all of it is now being distributed to the three museums in the show's title. It's a big win for LACMA especially, which gains its first paintings by Manet and van Gogh. (More on the background here and here .) The title "Village Square" refers to the painting that started Henry Pearlman's collection, Village Square, Céret (now called View of Céret ) by Chaim Soutine. Pearlman (1895–1974), a Brooklyn-born cold storage magnate, favored the School of Paris, that moveable feast of modernism. Cézanne is the founding figure here, and the collection's nexus is...
