London's Tate Modern gifted large Joan Mitchell artwork

Record ID: 1988002

  • Title: London's Tate Modern gifted large Joan Mitchell artwork
  • Date: 3rd April 2025
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (APRIL 3, 2025) (REUTERS) JORGE M. PEREZ AND DARLENE PEREZ POSING FOR PICTURES (SOUNDBITE) (English) ART COLLECTORS AND PHILANTHROPISTS, JORGE M. PEREZ AND DARLENE PEREZ, SAYING: JORGE M. PEREZ: “I mean, I think that the private sector, you know, needs to be much more involved, particularly people like the us that have been very fortunate in
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  • Keywords: Art IVA JOAN MITCHELL Tate
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  • Country: UK
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  • Reuters ID: LVA004394303042025RP1
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  • Story Text:A six-metre-long piece of artwork by late U.S. painter Joan Mitchell, has gone on display at the Tate Modern in London.
    Named after Michell’s German Sheperd dog, ‘Iva 1973’ was donated to the institution by U.S. art collectors and philanthropists Jorge M. and Darlene Perez, who previously had the piece “in their bedroom.”
    ‘’It's hanging here in Tate Modern…in a room alongside Mark Rothko’s “Seagram Murals” because it has been donated to our collection as a gift to the nation from the extraordinarily generous philanthropists, Jorge and Darlene Perez.” Director of Tate, Maria Balshaw said, as the piece was unveiled on Thursday (April 3).
    Mitchell, who died aged 67 in 1992, was an ‘’extraordinarily dynamic painter’’ Balshaw said, explaining she was part of a large group of artists known today as ‘’abstract expressionists.’’
    ‘’Like most of the women associated with that movement… they were under-appreciated…. Thankfully, in the last couple of decades that has really changed,’’ she said.
    The gift from American businessman and founder of a Miami based real estate company Jorge M. Pérez and his wife, also includes ‘a multimillion-dollar endowment to support Tate’s curatorial research’, the Tate said.
    (Production: Stuart McDill, Natasha Mulenga)
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