Dick Wolf, 'Law & Order' creator, gives 200 artworks to the Met Museum
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Tuesday, November 5, 2024


Dick Wolf, 'Law & Order' creator, gives 200 artworks to the Met Museum
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (Italian, 1444/45–1510) and studio, Madonna and Child with the Young Baptist, Saint Francis receiving the Stigmata in the Distance, ca. 1480s. Tempera on panel, 121 x 121 cm. (47.6 x 47.6 in.) by Zachary Small.



NEW YORK, NY.- Dick Wolf, the “Law & Order” creator, has made a promised gift of more than 200 works — paintings, sculptures and drawings among them — for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collections of Renaissance and Baroque art. He is also donating a substantial sum of money, the Met announced on Wednesday, adding that it would endow two galleries with his name.

Wolf has been a discreet collector in the art world, focusing his attention on older works at a time when the most well-known collectors invest in modern and contemporary art. Some of his promised gifts to the New York museum were also recent purchases, including a 15th-century Botticelli painting that sold for $4.6 million in 2012 and a 16th-century Orazio Gentileschi painting that sold for $4.4 million in 2022. The Gentileschi is already on view in the newly reopened European paintings galleries; Wolf is also donating a piece by the artist’s daughter, Artemisia, which sold for $2.1 million that same year.

Max Hollein, the Met’s director and chief executive, said that he and the museum’s curators cultivated a relationship with the television producer over the last three years; however, he stayed away from giving advice on the market.

“I never wanted to be too presumptuous,” Hollein said in an interview. “But I think he was already thinking about the Met.”

The collection also includes a $2.8 million painting by van Gogh sold in 2022, “Beach at Scheveningen in Calm Weather,” one of his earliest oil landscapes. The painting was made in 1882, at the beach outside of the fishing village of Scheveningen, but the artist later abandoned the picture inside of a crate of some 40 works. His family stored the crate with a carpenter, who later sold the contents for the equivalent of 50 cents to a junk dealer named Johannes Couvreur.

A museum spokesperson declined to provide a specific number for the endowment, which will ensure Wolf’s name is on two galleries in the department of European sculpture and decorative arts, but she said it was in the tens of millions of dollars.

Wolf declined an interview but said in a statement that his appreciation for art started when he was a child visiting the Met on his way home from school. “It was a simpler time, there was no admission, you could walk in off the street,” he said. “I’m sure most collectors would agree that seeing your art displayed in the world’s greatest museum is an honor.”

Hollein characterized Wolf’s donation as one of the most meaningful gifts to the museum in recent memory.

“The collection reflects Dick Wolf’s excellent connoisseurship and enduring dedication to the diverse artistic media of the periods,” he said. “Furthermore, the substantial financial contribution will provide critical support for the Met’s collection displays and scholarly pursuits.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.










Today's News

December 22, 2023

Dick Wolf, 'Law & Order' creator, gives 200 artworks to the Met Museum

Stéphane Mandelbaum, edgy art and a life violently cut short

Almine Rech inaugurates new exhibition in Gstaad with 'Picasso: Unique etchings from the Crommelynck studio'

Forget Halloween, bring ghost stories back to Christmas

Josef Strau's first solo exhibition at Layr includes sculpture, photographic, print works, paintings and videos

Ever want to curl into a ball? Here's how Trilobites did it.

Can one of opera's greatest singers get her voice back?

'Ellipsis' new solo exhibition by Cristina Iglesias presents monumental suspended pavilion

ARCOmadrid announces participating galleries for its next edition

This cake maker finds beauty in change, time and even life and death

Woman artist Oda Jaune to transform the TEMPLON gallery New York space

Minnesota unveils new State Flag design

New graphic biography delves into captivating early years of groundbreaking artist Ruth Asawa

Exclusive Sergio Hudson exhibition now open at November 18 at Columbia Museum of Art

Phoenix Art Museum premieres Laura Aguilar exhibition featuring self-portraits in Southwest landscapes

Grand Palais Éphémère to host 26th edition of ART PARIS 2024

Lot auctioned by Baron Philippe de Rothschild SA sold for €237,500

When translating a play is about more than language

Have yourself a jazzy, or pop-punk or country little Christmas

How 'The Nutcracker' has been reimagined, for better and worse

STRAAT Museum records almost 200,000 visitors in 2023

This Antarctic octopus has a warning about rising sea levels

Heritage's auction of 'Succession' costumes, props, set decorations is the event of the award season

Which are the Most Niche Sports Ideal for Online Sports Betting?




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Attorneys
Truck Accident Attorneys
Accident Attorneys
Holistic Dentist
Abogado de accidentes
สล็อต
สล็อตเว็บตรง

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site Parroquia Natividad del Señor
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful