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The Tavitian donation at the Clark Art Institute (1)
1/11/24 - Acquisitions - Williamstown, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute - The Clark Art Institute, directed by French curator Olivier Meslay, has just announced an exceptional gift of 331 works of art, together with a donation of 45 million dollars to create a curatorial post in charge of the collection and to build a new wing for the museum.
The donation comes from the foundation of Aso Tavitian, a businessman born in Bulgaria in 1940 to Armenian parents who survived the genocide of 1915. A philanthropist and collector, he left a very large collection when he died in 2020. In 2023, the foundation gave the Metropolitan Museum a portrait of Giovanni Battista Moroni (see the news item of 28/1/23), and a portrait of Francesco Salviati (see the news item of 9/2/23). A member of the…