(Left) Edgar Degas, The Dancers, pastel on paper on board, 73.66 x 60.96 cm. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof. Photo © 2007 Museum Associates/LACMA. (Right) Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881–1973, active France), Head of a Woman in Profile (Jacqueline), 1970, oil on canvas, 116 x 89 cm, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof, © 2007 Estate of Pablo Picasso/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo © 2007 Museum Associates/LACMA.

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced today the acquisition of a major collection of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by leading modern artists that will significantly transform the museum’s collection of twentieth-century art. The fractional and promised gift of 130 works is remarkable for its concentration on the leading figures of modern art and for individual objects that in many cases represent LACMA’s first major work by that artist.

Among the highlights of the gift are twenty works by Picasso—paintings, drawings, and sculpture that span the years 1905 to 1970, including bold portraits of Dora Maar from the 1930s. Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, who both taught at the revolutionary Bauhaus school in Germany in the 1920s, are represented by twenty-one watercolors and paintings that form a fundamentally interrelated group. Seven bronzes and one painting by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti are a particular strength of the collection. Numerous works by Alexander Archipenko, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Edgar Degas, Lyonel Feininger, Fernand Léger, Henry Moore, and Camille Pissarro are also included as part of this transformative addition to the museum’s collection.

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