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The M.T. Abraham Foundation is a non-profit art institution. Its headquarters are in Paris, France, and its collections are stored in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded by the descendants of Mansur Tamir Abraham after his death in 1999. Its stated intent is promoting public appreciation for Russian and European Modernism, Impressionism, and Modern Art by collecting pieces that can be loaned "for the sole purpose of display and study by public institutions."〔 The core of the collection focusing on European and Russian Modernism of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Among the artists are Avigdor Arikha, Salvador Dalí, Menashe Kadishman, Mikhail Larionov, Henri Rousseau, David Shterenberg, Vladimir Tatlin, Roberto Matta, Alexander Bogomazov, Maria Gaken and El Lissitzky.〔 The Foundation owns a complete collection of sculptures by Edgar Degas, which it has loaned to institutions such as the National Art Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria〔 the Tel Aviv Art Museum,〔 the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno,〔 In early 2012 the Degas collection was exhibited at the (Klovićevi dvori museum ) in Zagreb, and later at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg for a posthumous bronze exhibition linked with an international colloquium "(Posthumous Bronze in Law and Art History )". Through MTA Publishing, the foundation promotes, publicizes and facilitates investigation related to its permanent collection. Also, it supports debates on the "artistic phenomena" that shape the plastic arts from the 19th to the 21st centuries by publishing different editorial possibilities. In 2013 MTA Publishing released ''Selling Russia’s Treasures,'' a publication detailing of the sale of Russian art confiscated from the Tsarist royal family, the church, private individuals and museums in the Soviet Union. In 2013, the Foundation published the book ''White City - Bauhaus Architecture in Tel Aviv,'' which presents Tel Aviv's Bauhaus architectural heritage at the State Hermitage Museum. The publication ''Lissitzky - Kabakov, Utopia and Reality at the Hermitage Museum'' followed. In 2013, as part of a cultural event led by the Israeli General Consulate in St. Petersburg and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the foundation helped organize the exhibition "White City - Bauhaus Architecture in Tel Aviv," which portrays the city's urban and architectural heritage at the State Hermitage Museum. On December 2013, the State Hermitage Museum presented an exhibition “(Edgar Degas - Figures in Motion )”, to highlight the importance of the bronze sculptures of Edgar Degas and place them in the proper historical context of modern masterpieces. The entire collection of 74 bronze sculptures are on loan to the museum for two years, courtesy of the M.T. Abraham Foundation. ==History== The organization was first founded in 2004 by the family of Mansur Tamir Abraham. M.T. Abraham (born April 27, 1912) was a native of Aden, Yemen when it was occupied by the British. He became a legal authority on African and Asian rule of law. Abraham was also a meticulous and avid art collector, focusing largely on Russian and Western European works of art. Many of the pieces he collected were at the time considered unimportant. Abraham died on January 9, 1999 at the age of 86.〔 In 2004 his children and grandchildren formed his collections into the M.T. Abraham Foundation, a non-profit organization. The current president is Amir Gross Kabiri. It is based in Geneva, Switzerland, with head offices in Paris, France.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「M.T. Abraham Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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