
By ROBIN POGREBIN of the New York Times
- Oct 17, 2016
102 Latin American Artworks, and a New Institute, Will Go to the Modern
Before Lygia Clark was getting major museum retrospectives; beforeAdriana Varejão was represented by leading galleries; before Beatriz Milhazes was achieving high prices at auction, Patricia Phelps de Cisneroswas collecting Latin American art, filling the walls of her home with Modernist abstraction and contemporary works by artists from Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay. Over the last 16 years, Ms. Cisneros and her husband, Gustavo A. Cisneros, have donated 40 of thes