Acquisitions & Donations
The American Friends of the Centre Pompidou supports the Centre Pompidou with significant loans and gifts of art and design. Since 2010, more than 550 works of art valued at more than $50 million have been donated or pledged to the American Friends from a generous group of thoughtful collectors and donors. Please take a moment to browse through some of the spectacular works that are now enhancing the Centre Pompidou collection thanks to our valued friends.
2012
Acquisitions
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Autorretrato ciego muy feliz y emocionado, pensando en un futuro brillante, 2012
White acrylic paint on newspaper clippings, cardboard, photographs, drawings, postcards, envelopes, tickets, vouchers, letters, drawings, posters, flyers, cards, recipes, napkins, and steel pins on wall (installation of 175 pieces)
Variable dimensions
Regina José Galindo
Punto ciego, 2010
Video, master in HD digital video file, viewing copies
Running time: 17 minutes, 2 seconds
Edition 5 of 5 + 1AP
Purchased by Centre Pompidou Foundation with funds provided by Hugo Quinto and The Estrellita and Daniel Brodsky Family Foundation
Fernanda Gomes
Untitled, 2012
Painted wood and string
41 1/4 x 49 x 9 3/4 inches (105 x 125 x 25 cm)
Fernanda Gomes
Untitled, 2012
Wood, nail
4 x 2 1/2 x 6 inches (10 x 6 x 15.5 cm)
Gabriel Orozco
Manguera mordita (Eaten Hose), 1990
Silver dye bleach print (Cibachrome)
12 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (31.6 x 47.3 cm)
Edition AP2 of 5 + 2 APs
Gabriel Orozco
Cutting Rings, 1995
C-print
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Edition AP2 of 5 + 2APs
DONATIONS
Robert Beck
Untitled (Children As individuals by Michael Fordham) Picture 1: “The Witch”, 2001
Carbon, charcoal, and graphite on paper
11 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (29.2 x 29.2 cm)
Gift of an anonymous donor
Francesco Clemente
Mother (no. 76 from the series Two Garlands), 1986
Oil monotype on Japanese paper
36 1/8 x 20 inches (91.8 x 50.8 cm)
Gift of Anonymous
Luc Delahaye
A Mass Grave Near Snagovo, Bosnia, 2006
C-print
118 1/8 x 70 7/8 inches (300 cm x 180 cm)
Gift of Michael and Jane Wilson
Dario Escobar
Construcción geométrica No. 2, 2012
Wood, iron and paint
124 1/2 x 69 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches (316 x 177.5 x 55 cm)
Gift of Hugo Quinto and Juan Pablo Lojo
![El Préstamo [The Loan]](https://fpompidou.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/06-El-PrestamoThe-Loan2000.jpg "El Préstamo [The Loan]")
Aníbal Lopez
El Préstamo [The Loan], 2000
Poster printed on Hahnemühle paper (re-edition, original destroyed); three photographs
Poster 60 x 42 inches (152.4 x 106.7 cm); photographs 20 x 30 inches (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Edition of 3 + 1AP
Gift of Hugo Quinto and Juan Pablo Lojo
Miwa Ogasawara
Bild, 2007
Oil on canvas
75 x 94 1/2 inches (190 x 240 cm)
Gift of Kathy and Steven Guttman
Gabriel Orozco
Horseshit, 1992
Silver dye bleach print (Cibachrome)
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Edition AP2 of 5 + 2APs
Gift of Gabriel Orozco