The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been gifted one of the biggest collections of contemporary ink paintings. Over four hundred works, the majority of which are Chinese, has been promised by collectors Gérard and Dora Cognié.
Highlights include Li Huasheng’s 209 (2002), Lin Tianmiao’s Seeing Shadow 5 #2 (2006), Qiu Zhijie’s Monuments: Revolutionary Slogans of Successive Dynasties (2007), Sugimoto Hiroshi’s Lightning Fields 143 (2009) and Idris Khan’s Numbers (2015).
Gérard Cognié is a Swiss financier.
The news comes as Indonesian collector Budi Tek announced that he will partner with the American museum to form a foundation, to which he will donate most of his collection of Chinese contemporary art. The as-yet-unnamed foundation will open its first show in 2019 at a venue also yet to be revealed.
3 April 2018
