187 works, valued at €173 million, the couple Marlene and Spencer Hays gave to the Paris Museum 22 Oct

This is the largest donation of France from foreign patrons since the end of World war II. Only the Musee d'orsay promised about 600 works in total, estimated at €350 million the First 187 of the works, worth €173 million, the couple Marlene and Spencer Hays gave to the Paris Museum on 22 October. The rest will go to Musee d'orsay, bequest of the spouses Spencer, after their death. Among the works, which will multiply a famous meeting Orsay, works of Odilon Redon (Odilon Redon), Edgar Degas (Edgar Degas), Gustave Caillebotte (Gustave Caillebotte), Camille Corot (Camille Corot), Aristide Mayol (Aristide Maillol), Amedeo Modigliani (Amedeo Modigliani) and albert Marquet (Albert Marquet).

Marlene and Spencer Hays, who is now 80 years old, known in America collectors and philanthropists. Collecting art since the early 1970-х. And if at first they were fond of American art of the late XIX — beginning of the twentieth century, after the first trip to France in 1971, completely changed direction and focused only on French art. Over and over again Hazy brought back from trips to France new paintings and drawings of the French. Since the early 1980-х their special passion is work by artists group "Nabi" — Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, Ranson Fields, Aristide Maillol, Jean Edouard Vuillard and others Their passion for France and everything French was so strong that collectors are built in Nashville, in Texas, an exact copy of a Palace, the Hotel de Noirmoutier 1724 —резиденции prefect of the Paris district. Thus all the materials for its construction — from limestone to furniture — were brought from France. Hazy themselves traveled French antique shops in search of silverware and all of the interior. And when the house was finished, the couple made it the focal point of exhibiting his extensive collection of French art.

Among the outstanding works submitted Marlene and Spencer Hays the Musee d'orsay, — "Breakfast after the bath" by Edgar Degas, "the Lobster" (1883) Gustave Caillebotte, and "Portrait of Soutine" by Amedeo Modigliani on the door of the apartment art-дилера Leopold Zborowski. With them the Museum's collection will be completed especially loved Mr. Hayes pictures — sketches of posters by Pierre Bonnard and thumbnails of magazine covers Toulouse-Лотрека.

One of the last works acquired Hayes (2008), — seventh panel from the series of Edouard Vuillard "Urban gardens" in 1894. Only Vuillard wrote nine panels for the decoration of the house of Alexander Natanson, the owner of the magazine La Revue blanche, published the works of leading artists of the time, including the group "Nabi". Each panel is a complete work, but they all add up to a polyptych with a single landscape, in which both discern several gardens of Paris (e.g., Paris). Today, five panels of the series "Urban gardens" owned by the Louvre. The seventh panel, titled "Walking girl", will reunite with the others for the first time in half a century.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: telegraph.co.uk, dw.com, musee-orsay.fr, artinvestment.ru