PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM RECEIVES MAJOR GIFT OF PAINTINGS
The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced today the gift of several important additions to its collection in the form of a bequest from museum patron Helen Tyson Madeira. The gift includes five paintings by French artists, including Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1902–6, by Paul Cézanne; Basket of Fruit, 1864, by Édouard Manet; Railroad to Dieppe, 1886, and Avenue de l’Opéra: Morning Sunshine, 1898, both by Camille Pissarro; and Young Girl with Basket, 1892, by Berthe Morisot.
In addition, two rare early portraits by Marcel Duchamp were also given to the museum by Yolande Candel, the daughter of Duchamp’s friend, Gustave Candel. The portraits depict her grandparents and were painted in Paris in 1911–12. These gifted works are all being put on view in various galleries at the museum.
