Art Archives To MOMA

Archives of the Parisian art dealer who represented Picasso, Matisse, and other early French modernists will be donated to the Museum of Modern Art for scholarly research, reports the Associated Press. The archives encompass "a unique assemblage of materials" for the study of early-twentieth-century French art and for "documenting the provenance of hundreds of paintings and sculptures," MoMA said in a statement about the Rosenberg-family bequest. The original Rosenberg gallery in Paris sold nineteenth-century art works by Eugene Delacroix, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Paul Cézanne and, after 1906, added paintings by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, and Henri Matisse. The family archives comprise numerous art sale records, photographs of every work in the gallery's inventory, correspondence, exhibition files, and photographs of installations staged in Paris. (For full source and article click the Headline). Irish Art