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 625 works of art valued at more than $70 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.

2025

DONATIONS

Matthew Pillsbury Spectrum of Life, Museum of Natural History, 2004

Matthew Pillsbury
Spectrum of Life, Museum of Natural History, 2004
80 x 101 cm
Gift of Judith L Pillsbury

225 artworks by contemporary European artists, including Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Anette Kelm, Michael Krebber, Lucy Mckenzie, Henrik Olesen, Josephine Pryde, Padraig Timoney, Keith Tyson and Heimo Zobernig among others.
Gift of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner 

Henrik Olesen Some Gay-Lesbian Artists and/or Artists relevant to Homo-Social Culture VII/ London Goth/Paris Femmes/American Dykes in Rome/ New York 1810-25, 2007

Henrik Olesen
Some Gay-Lesbian Artists and/or Artists relevant to Homo-Social Culture VII/ London Goth/Paris Femmes/American Dykes in Rome/ New York 1810-25, 2007

Annette Kelm Kamin, 2001

Annette Kelm
Kamin, 2001

Josephine Pryde What else was happening when I was in a (Back Bend), 2007

Josephine Pryde
What else was happening when I was in a (Back Bend), 2007

Anish Kapoor Hain, 2011

Anish Kapoor
Hain, 2011
1472 x 481 x 472 cm; 579 1/2 x 189 3/8 x 185 7/8 in
Gift of Claude Wasserstein-Englander and Israel Englander

Michel Parmentier 8 avril 1991, 1991

Michel Parmentier
8 avril 1991, 1991
304 x 300 cm
Gift of Jill and Bob Bronstein

Barbara Crane 206 photographic prints

Barbara Crane
206 photographic prints
Gift of Beth Crane, Jennifer Crane, and Bruce Crane

Tom Wesselmann Set of 35 drawings

Tom Wesselmann
Set of 35 drawings
Gift of the Estate of Tom Wesselmann