New Acquisitions: Man Ray, Miro, Ernst, and Pollock
November 28, 2003-July 1, 2004Location: Nathan Cummings Building for Modern and Contemporary Art
Artist: Man Ray, Miro, Ernst, and Pollock
Curator: Stephanie Rachum
The department of Modern Art received a bequest of three outstanding works from the estate of Sylvia Slifka: Joan Miró's Spanish Dancer (1927), Max Ernst's The King Playing with the Queen (1944), and Jackson Pollock's Horizontal Composition (1949). Man Ray's assemblage Venus Restored (1936/71), gift of Jose Mugrabi, was also shown here for the first time.