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The real Menil: on the one hundredth anniversary of her birth, Dominique de Menil's Houston house testifies to the sure instincts of a consummate collector.
It would be hard to refute the art world consensus that the most admired collector of the second half of the twentieth century was Dominique de Menil (Fig. 6), the French-born heiress to the Schlumberger oil drilling equipment fortune, whose eponymous private museum of 1982 to 1986, designed for her adopted hometown of Houston by Renzo Piano (1937-), is as universally esteemed as its founder. In the centennial year of Menil's birth, her status as aesthetic visionary and high priestess of art only continues to rise.
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...Meaning (published by the Menil Collection and University of Texas Press...Commissioned by John and Dominique de Menil in 1964, the chapel contains...door. As is characteristic of Menil Collection installations, the paintings...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The real Menil: on the one hundredth anniversary of her birth,...