MICHAEL WERNER DONATES 130 WORKS TO MUSéE D’ART MODERNE IN PARIS

Dealer and collector Michael Werner has donated 130 works to the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. Werner’s gift includes pieces by Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Gaston Chaissac, André Derain, Otto Freundlich, Étienne-Martin, Robert Filliou, Antonius Höckelmann, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Markus Lüpertz, A. R. Penck, Bernard Réquichot, Niele Toroni, and Don Van Vliet. Fabrice Hergott, the museum’s director, was influential in the selection of works given by Werner; Hergott had made a list of artists and pieces he felt were “crucial” to the museum. Werner opened his first gallery, Werner and Katz, in Berlin in 1963, and has since also maintained galleries in Cologne and New York. He will open a new space in London in October later this year.