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Recommended features

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  • From Gertrude Stein to the Rockefellers: The collecting of modernist masterpieces

    Impressionist & Modern specialists Max Carter and Jessica Fertig on how works collected by Gertrude Stein came to be acquired by Peggy and David Rockefeller

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  • ‘An equal partnership’ between Matisse and his model

    Biographer Hilary Spurling admires the superlative Odalisque couchée aux magnolias from the Rockefellers’ collection

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  • The Collection of Richard Mellon Scaife

    Featuring works from four very distinct residences, the Collection of Richard Mellon Scaife demonstrates a lifetime of collecting across varied categories and styles in the decorative arts tradition.

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  • ‘Radical and innovative’ — the gorgeous glass of Carlo Scarpa

    Carlo Scarpa took the traditions of Venetian glassblowing and created some of the 20th century’s most innovative designs

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  • Polished performers

    ​Four contemporary silversmiths — hailing from China, Belgium, Britain and Japan — who have harnessed ancient techniques to their own distinctive styles

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  • Live like a Rockefeller — Pablo Picasso’s Pomme

    Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s ’story teller’ for The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, looks at a painting that gives him ‘goose-bumps’

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  • 5 minutes with… An early al-Tusi astronomical manuscript

    Islamic art specialist Romain Pingannaud on a 13th-century copy of a key compendium on astronomy and mathemetics