Three years ago, Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière entrusted 36 African and Oceanian works of art worth 52 million euros to the care of the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum.
This is the largest private donation in this area since the post-war period.
This is also the equivalent of forty years of the budget allocated to acquisitions by the institution.
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This exceptional philanthropic gesture (concluded without any tax benefit in return), the former banker spent by L'Oréal, creator of the financial group Fimalac and currently twenty-fourth French fortune, had meditated for a long time.
A collector at heart, curious by nature, he had notably cultivated relationships with some of the most enlightened connoisseurs in the field of so-called non-Western arts.
A world as vast as it is specialized.
Thus the traveler Jacques Kerchache, the gallery owners Hélène Leloup and Alain de Monbrison, the head of the Africa heritage unit at the museum, Hélène Joubert, or even the late
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