The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will receive its first works by legendary artists Edouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh as part of a gift announced Monday by the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation.
The foundation, which oversees the collection amassed by the late Henry Pearlman beginning in 1945, announced Monday it will donate its entire collection to three institutions — LACMA, the Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
LACMA will receive a total of six works, including Manet’s “Young Woman in a Round Hat” (from roughly 1877-79), and van Gogh’s 1888 work “Tarascon Stagecoach.”
The Brooklyn Museum will receive 29 works, while MoMA will receive 28. All of the works will initially be displayed in a traveling exhibition through next year that will rotate to all three of the museums before the works are eventually placed in their respective new homes.
“For years we have explored every model we could imagine for the future ownership and guardianship of this collection,” Daniel Edelman, president of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation. “We ultimately chose the Brooklyn Museum for the works that tell Henry’s story of discovery and for its commitment to engaging a diverse community; LACMA for works that specifically enhance their ability to innovate around bringing art to where people are; and MoMA, where Cézanne’s works on paper will be shared and cared for by one of the finest departments of drawings and prints that we know, as well as a half dozen of his paintings that together support the artist’s foundational role in the story of modern art.
“With very different collections, communities, and presentations of art, these three great institutions share an understanding that museums, their audiences, and how those audiences engage with art, are constantly changing. All three are committed to leading that challenge and inspiring others to meet it as well.”
LACMA CEO Michael Govan said in a statement, “LACMA is deeply grateful to welcome these masterpieces to the museum’s collection, and especially for van Gogh and Manet, two towering figures of 19th century art, whose paintings will be represented in our collection for the first time. It is also an honor to help fulfill Henry and Rose’s wish to share their collection with our vast public, together with the Brooklyn Museum and MoMA. We look forward to presenting the collection to LACMA’s visitors in an upcoming exhibition next year, as well as in future exhibitions at LACMA and our colleague institutions both locally and around the world.”