Cosmetics heir and art collector Leonard A. Lauder donated his collection of 78 Cubist works valued at more than a $1 billion to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Arts, its director said on Tuesday.

Cosmetics heir and art collector Leonard A. Lauder donated his collection of 78 Cubist works valued at more than a $1 billion to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Arts, its director said on Tuesday.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the recipient of a "transformative" collection of Cubist works by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others. The donation, worth more than $1 billion, was ...

Art collector Leonard Lauder enriches Metropolitan%27s modern-art collection His 78 Cubist artworks will go on view next year Met director calls donation ...

Juan Gris, 1913: Pears and Grapes on a Table. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Source: Photo by the author. Since cubist art reduces ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Cubism is — we have been told — an artistic movement that strives to break down the falsehoods of art. Rather than emulate and create the illusion of reality, cubism did the opposite ...

Picasso, Braque and Gris learned new tricks from old masters of optical illusion. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show, they shatter modern art to pieces. By Jason Farago Paris, and the year ...

Pablo Picasso, “Sheet Music and Guitar” (1912) 41,5 x 48 cm Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Adam Rzepka/Dist ...