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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will receive significant donations of European artwork, including the first paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Eduard Manet.
The Henry and Rose Perlman Foundation announced Monday that it will split the entire collection of Impressionists, Postimpressionists and Contemporary Art between three American museums in New York, the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
The Perlman collection was assembled by Henry Perlman, a self-taught art collector in the New York-based shipping industry.
For nearly 50 years, the collection has received long-term loans to the Princeton University Museum of Art, where it has been researched and digitalized.
The Foundation has forever gifted 63 works across the three institutions, including continuous piece rotation through joint exhibitions.
The largest museum on the West Coast, LACMA receives six pieces from the collection, including a young woman in a round hat (c. 1877–79) by Manet and Tarascon Stagecoach (1888).
A young woman wearing a round hat by Manet (left) and a Tarascon stagecoach by Van Gogh (right). Courtesy of the Perlman Foundation and the Princeton University Museum of Art.
“LACMA is deeply grateful for the welcome of these masterpieces into the museum collection, especially to Van Gogh and Manet, two towering figures of 19th century art.
Before the artwork is officially handed over, the complete collection will travel as an open exhibition entitled “Village Square: The Gift of Contemporary Art from the Perlman Collection to the Brooklyn Museum, Lakkuma and Moma.”
The show debuted at LACMA from February until July 2026, giving Los Angeles audiences the opportunity to experience the Perlman collection in one place before the work is distributed forever.
Daniel Edelman, president of the Perlman Foundation, said the three institutions were chosen not only for collections but for their commitment to rethinking how art is experienced by a diverse mass.
“LACMA (Choosed) was chosen for works that specifically strengthen our ability to innovate around bringing art to where people are,” Edelman. “All three (museums) are committed to leading the challenge and encouraging others to meet them.”
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