New Zealand Museum Gets Major Art Gift

Published: May 8, 2009

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NEW YORK— A New Zealand museum has received a donation of works that include paintings by Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, and Mondrian, the New York Times reports.

The Auckland Art Gallery said it had received the gift from the New York collectors and philanthropists Julian H. Robertson Jr. and Josie Robertson. It is the largest gift ever made to an art museum in the Australasian region, the gallery said.

The donation consists of 12 paintings and three works on paper, including portraits by Picasso from 1938 and 1951, a landscape by Gauguin from 1884, and an abstract geometric painting by Mondrian from around 1920.

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The National Business Review of New Zealand placed the total value of the collection at $120–150 million. The Robertsons told the Review they wanted to give the museum an international-quality exhibition.

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