PICASSO AMONG WORKS DONATED TO NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART
The North Carolina Museum of Art is getting a Pablo Picasso portrait and three other paintings by modern European artists as it prepares to reopen in April, according to the News Observer.
The four paintings are being donated by Julian and Josie Robertson. Julian Robertson, a native of Salisbury and a graduate of UNC–Chapel Hill, owns a hedge fund called Tiger Management.
Seated Woman, Red and Yellow Background was painted in 1952 and depicts Françoise Gilot, Picasso’s lover and the mother of two of his children.
“It’s something we would never have thought about fifty years ago,” said John Coffey, the museum’s deputy director for art. “The collection has always been a little too polite for me.”
The other works are The Bridge at Moret on an April Morning, 1888, by Alfred Sisley, The Bridge at Poissy, 1905, by Maurice de Vlaminck, and Fishing Boat (Red Sky), 1916, by Emil Nolde.
