Russian Prince Gives Art to Pushkin

MOSCOW—The Russian Prince Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky has donated $375,000 worth of 20th-century artworks to the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, Bloomberg reports. The prince gave the museum Poet's Melancholy (1916), an oil painting by Giorgio de Chirico, and Black Zigzag (1924), an aquarelle on paper by Theo van Doesburg, "without restrictions," he said. "We're giving the van Doesberg because the museum doesn't have any of his works, nor do they have a de Chirico of the type we're giving," said Lobanov-Rostovsky, who is a United States citizen. The prince, a career geologist and a fellow in perpetuity at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and his wife, Princess Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky, a writer and lecturer on Russian decorative arts and Russian stage design, as well as a consultant for Christie's and Sotheby's, have an extensive art collection that includes works by Leon Bakst, Alexander Benois, and Mikhail Larionov.