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Cosmetic tycoon gave New York museum of 131 million dollars
Leonard Lauder, owner of Estee Lauder cosmetics empire, giving New York Whitney Museum of American Art (Whitney Museum of American Art) 131 million dollars. As the newspaper writes The New York Times - it is the largest charitable contribution in the history of the museum.
Leonard Lauder Stewardship Council headed by the museum since 1994. Thanks to his initiative, the museum was able to buy dozens of major works of contemporary American artists, including the works of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Jackson Polloka. In the amount of nearly 200 million dollars. Lauderu fund owned American Contemporary Art Foundation made the biggest contribution to the museum collection.
In 2007, the Whitney Museum has announced the construction project branch in one area of Manhattan, which had given rise to speculation about the sale of the main building of the museum, located on Madison Avenue, which was built on the draft Bryuera Marseilles. Lauder confident that the collection should remain at the Whitney Madison Avenue has become in the "icon" modernist architecture of the building.
Origin brother Ronald Leonard Lauder, Estee Lauder Companies owner of a well-known collector, is the Board of Trustees of the other major New York collection - MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art.
Last week the New York Public Library has received one hundred millionth contribution from financier Stephen Shvartsmana. |
Posted: 7:55 PM, 3/20/2008 |
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