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Mexican couple bequeaths $300 million art to Met
Natasha and Jacques Gelman built a world class modern art collection over decades in Mexico and at their New York home. Mrs Gelman died at 86 and left more than 85 works by Picasso Miro Dali Braque and Matisse to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including Matisse Young Sailor II after a 15 year search. The gift elevates the Met 20th century program with key Paris School works and European icons.
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New York
Natasha
Jacques Gelman
Mexico
Henri Matisse
Robert Littman
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo
Mexico City
Pablo Picasso
Joan Miro
Salvador Dali
Georges Braque
School of Paris
Met
Crowed
Philippe de Montebello
Paris
Picasso
Braque
Matisse
Miro
Russia
France
Cantinflas
Bohemia
Acapulco
Littman
Frida Kahlo
Diego Rivera
Gelman
Cuernavaca
New York City
Lynn Gumpert
Grey Art Gallery
New York University
Gelmans
Museum
William Lieberman
Manhattan
Veronnet
Pierre Bonnard
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Natasha Gelman