"A museum dedicated to works from art dealer Ileana Sonnabend's legendary collection opened this past weekend in the Renaissance city of Mantua, Italy, thanks to a partnership with the Sonnabend Foundation. The nearly 100 artworks on display, valued at $270 million, include masterpieces by Pop artists, Arte Povera sculptors, and contemporary artists. With her second husband Michael Sonnabend, Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007) opened Sonnabend Gallery in 1962 in Paris."
"Along the way, the couple built an unrivaled collection of postwar art, including pieces by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, Pop paintings by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Minimalist works by Donald Judd, installations by Arte Povera artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto, and conceptual photography by Bernd and Hilla Becher and Bruce Nauman. In 2008, following Ileana Sonnabend's death, her adopted son Antonio Homen and her daughter Nina Sundell, heirs to the collection, sold off a large portion of it to cover estate taxes."
A nearly 100-piece selection from Ileana Sonnabend's postwar art collection is now on display in Mantua's 13th-century Palazzo della Ragione. The works include Pop, Arte Povera, Minimalist, and contemporary pieces by artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, Michaelangelo Pistoletto, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Bruce Nauman. Sonnabend opened influential galleries in Paris and New York that helped introduce European avant-garde art to America and American Pop Art to Europe. The Sonnabend Foundation has loaned the collection to the municipality for six years, with an option to renew for another six, while local officials hope for a permanent home.
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