Pearlman Foundation Donates Modernist Masterpieces to Multiple Museums
130Aug. 6, 2025
TheHenry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, which oversees the renowned Pearlman Collection, an assembly of modern and Impressionist masterworks, will gift the entire assembly to three museums. TheLos Angeles County Museum of Art(LACMA) is to be one of the lucky beneficiaries, as are theBrooklyn Museumand the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), both in New York. LACMA is set to receive six works, the Brooklyn Museum twenty-nine, and MoMA twenty-eight. The three institutions were chosen for their disparate merits, with LACMA selected for its inventive methods of “bringing art to where people are,” the Brooklyn Museum given the nod for its engagement with a diverse audience, and MoMA recognized for its outstanding department of drawings and gifts.
Among the treasures going to LACMA are Édouard Manet’sYoung Woman in a Round Hat, ca. 1877–79, and Vincent van Gogh’sTarascon Stagecoach, 1888, while the Brooklyn Museum will receive works by Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, and Modigliani, includingHead, ca. 1910–11, a rare limestone sculpture by the Italian artist. MoMA will welcome fifteen watercolors by Paul Cézanne along with the French artist’s paintingsCistern in the Park of Château Noir,ca. 1900, andMont Sainte-Victoire, ca. 1904–1906. The whole collection will go on view in an exhibition opening at LACMA in February 2026 and traveling to the Brooklyn Museum.
“Rather than put conditions on the gift that would become limiting in a future that none of us can know, we created a set of guidelines to encourage these three institutions to collaborate on a flexible movement of the art among them,” said foundation president Daniel Edelman in a statement. “Our aim is to bring these major works to new audiences, allowing them to be seen in different contexts, reuniting our collection’s works with one another on a regular basis, and perhaps even inspiring collectors and museums to consider new models for ownership of art.”