Los Angeles, 29 October 2013
The Fowler Museum at UCLA in Los Angeles has received a collection of African Art valued at fourteen million dollars.
Collectors Jay and Deborah Last, originally from Beverly Hills in California, donated the collection to the Fowler Museum to mark the museum’s fiftieth birthday. The couple’s collection comprises 92 works, including wooden and ivory figures, as well as masks, tools, and spoons created by the Lega people of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The entire collection is to constitute the last part of the 318 pieces that were promised to the museum by the collectors.
The museum’s director, Marla C. Berns, has confirmed that “Jay and Deborah Last have generously donated more than 660 works of art to the Fowler Museum since 1973 \[...\] they can be counted among the museum’s most loyal patrons.”