MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ACQUIRES JASPER JOHNS SCULPTURE
Jasper Johns’s Painted Bronze, 1960, will be heading to a new permanent home at the Museum of Modern Art, according to the New York Times’ Randy Kennedy. It’s a promised gift from Henry R. Kravis along with his wife, Marie-Josée Kravis, who is president of the museum.
According to Matthew Marks, whose gallery represents Johns, the artist agreed to sell the work to the Kravises, if they in turn promised to give it to the museum. Thus far, the piece, and many other sculptures by Johns from the late 1950s and ’60s, have been on loan at the Philadelphia Museum.
MoMA also recently acquired its first paintings by Kerry James Marshall and Julian Schnabel. It also added William Pope.L’s The Black Factory_, 2004–2006, to its collection recently—a collection of objects, films, commercial products, props, and documents associated with the artist’s performance tour project across the United States.
