Art
MoMA Sells Rare Masterpiece, Reuniting Rockefeller Treasures in Houston
- A Fernand Léger mural was offered for $6 million at Art Basel
- Companion piece by Henri Matisse is on loan to Houston museum
The Léger painting at Basel.
Courtesy of Galerie Gmurzynska
In 1938, Nelson Rockefeller, the 30-year-old scion of one of America’s greatest banking families, commissioned two modern French painters to decorate the fireplaces in his penthouse on Fifth Avenue.
The two murals—one by Fernand Léger, another by Henri Matisse—may soon reunite.