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Sidney Janis

American art dealer and art collector

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In 1967 Mr. Janis gave his private collection, comprising 103 works by major European and American artists, to the Museum of Modern Art. Among them were important paintings by Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee and Umberto Boccioni. At the time the gift was valued at $2 million; today it would be worth more than $100 million. (English)
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Sidney Janis, the doyen of New York art dealers, whose gallery on West 57th Street mounted significant shows of European masters and helped put Abstract Expressionism on the international map, died yesterday after a bout with pneumonia. He was 93 years old and was active in the Sidney Janis Gallery until his 90th birthday.In 1967 Mr. Janis gave his private collection, comprising 103 works by major European and American artists, to the Museum of Modern Art. Among them were important paintings by Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee and Umberto Boccioni. At the time the gift was valued at $2 million; today it would be worth more than $100 million.Mr. Janis, a onetime professional dancer on the vaudeville circuit and later a shirt manufacturer, began his long involvement with art as a collector. Visiting Europe in the late 1920's and early 30's, he bought major works by School of Paris painters and acquired a small Mondrian canvas directly from the artist. It was the second Mondrian work to be brought to the United States. The impressive collection he assembled with his wife, Harriet, had several museum shows, and Mr. Janis himself became an exhibition organizer and a writer on art. Gallery Opened in 1 (English)

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