Head with a Severe Face, Veracruz, Mexico, Classic period (300-900 AD), Terracotta, 15,1 cm (h). Guy Joussemet collection, promised gift to highlight the designation of Nathalie Bondil as Director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2007

MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents All for Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share Their Works, a lecture by Guy Joussemet, collector, Sunday, February 3 at 2 p.m., in French at the Auditorium Maxwell-Cummings, Pavillon Michal et Renata Hornstein, 1379 Sherbrooke oust.

In the catalogue for the exhibition All for Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share Their Works, Guy Joussemet describes himself as an “unclassifiable collector, having applied the same zeal and high standards to the acquisition of pre-Columbian art, contemporary paintings, naïve art and art in the rough, photos, design objects and hand-crafted items. Everything is of interest to me, so long as it is, by my standards, beautiful, unusual or unique.” Be sure not to miss this talk!  (courtesy www.artdaily.com)