A modern patronage : de Menil gifts to American and European museums

Brennan, Marcia. (Author). Pacquement, Alfred. (Added Author). Temkin, Ann. (Added Author). Helfenstein, Josef. (Added Author). Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (Added Author).

Summary: "This illustrated book showcases some of the fifty works that the de Menils acquired over the decades, including pieces by such major twentieth-century artists as Lee Bontecou, Christo, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Jackson Pollock, Jean Tinguely, and Andy Warhol, as well as an important group of African, Oceanic, and pre-Columbian works."--Jacket.

Item details

ISBN: 9780300123791
ISBN: 0300123795
Physical Description: print
120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Publisher: Houston, Tex. : Menil Foundation ; New Haven, Conn., 2007.
Distributor: London : Yale University Press [distributor]

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Published on the occasion of the exhibition, held at The Menil Collection, Houston, June 8-September 16, 2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Seeing the unseen : James Johnson Sweeney and the de Menils / Marcia Brennan -- Sharing a vision : the de Menils and the Modern / Ann Temkin -- Dynamism is contagious : Dominique de Menil and the birth of the Centre Pompidou / Alfred Pacquement.