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American Collectors of Nabis Donate $380m Collection to Musee d’Orsay

October 22, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Nashville’s Spencer and Marlene Hays have donated 600 works to the Musee d’Orsay in Paris which will show them in together, according to France’s RFI:

“This donation, exceptional both in its size and its consistency, is the biggest received by a French museum from a French museum since 1945,” the French culture ministry said on Friday.

The 89-year-old couple have bequeathed their huge collection to Paris’s Seineside museum of 19th-century art when they die but 187 works, worth 173 million euros, were to be donated on Saturday.

The collection includes works by well-known artists like Edgar Degas, Odilon Redon, Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Corot and Amedeo Modigliani but the couple are most interested in the works of the Nabis, a group named after the Hebrew word for prophet who aimed to revitalise painting, and its members are well-represented with 23 works of Edouard Vuillard, 12 by Pierre Bonnard and four by Maurice Denis.

American collectors donate 350-million-euro collection to Paris’s Orsay museum (RFI)

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