Jean Pigozzi Donates Works from Collection of African Contemporary Art to MoMA

July 22nd, 2019

Collector Jean Pigozzi has donated 45 works to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with a focus on his substantial holdings of contemporary works from Africa. The gify includes work by Bodys Isek Kingelez, Jean Depara, and more.  “I hope that this donation will help open the eyes of millions of art lovers from all over the world to the amazing, and not yet well-enough known, art from the oldest—and now the youngest—continent on our planet,” Pigozzi said in a statement.

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