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3 mag 2018 · L’émancipation artistique de la ville de Houston s’est faite à partir de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle par l’intermédiaire d’un couple de Français, Jean et Dominique de Ménil, héritiers de la compagnie pétrolière Schlumberger. C’est l’histoire que raconte William Middleton dans son premier livre paru il y a un mois et ...
30 gen 2024 · Gallery guides to the exhibition after 2001 suggest Carpenter also thought of the project as an homage to Dominique de Menil. Before she died in 1997, she had been in conversation with Carpenter about initiating the project.
John and Dominique de Menil commissioned a portrait of Dominique from Max Ernst shortly after they married. They began to collect Surrealism in earnest in the late 1940s under the guidance of dealer Alexandre Iolas, a champion of the movement in the United States.
31 mag 2020 · John and Dominique de Menil, via French Embassy John de Menil was born into a French baronhood in 1904, and his wife, Dominique, was the heiress of the Schlumberger company fortune. John would later become the president of that company. They married in 1931 and emigrated to the United States at the outset of World War II.
24 mar 2016 · 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston, Texas, 1982-1987. Nel 1982 Renzo Piano venne incaricato dalla collezionista Dominique de Menil di progettare un museo destinato a ospitare la sua collezione d’ arte primitiva, surrealista e contemporanea, considerata una delle collezioni più importanti del mondo, costruita negli anni insieme al suo ormai defunto ...
28 set 2011 · It was not until the early 1980s that Dominique de Menil was prepared to tackle such a project again, but this time she called upon France’s latest sung hero, Italian architect Renzo Piano.
1 ott 1995 · The Menil Collection in Houston displays the vast art collection of its founders, Dominique and John de Menil. The museum, which opened to the public on June 7, 1987, also hosts special exhibits, which include works on loan from other collections. Dominique Schlumberger de Menil was born in France in 1908, daughter of Conrad Schlumberger, one ...
