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Marisol Bequest
View of Marisol’s New York studio. Image courtesy of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum Digital Assets Collection, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York. © Estate of Marisol / Buffalo AKG Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Jason Mandella.
“The Albright-Knox is proud to have been the first museum to acquire Marisol’s work . . . . We are moved, and profoundly grateful, that Marisol was similarly proud of her association with the Albright-Knox and took the extraordinary step of leaving her estate to our museum.”
– Janne Sirén, Peggy Pierce Elfvin Director
Upon her death in 2016, Marisol (María Sol Escobar, Venezuelan and American, born France, 1930–2016), bequeathed her estate to the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (then the Albright-Knox), based on her longstanding ties with the museum.
Through the artist’s generosity, the museum received more than 100 sculptures spanning the entirety of Marisol’s 60-year career, more than 150 works on paper, thousands of photographs and slides, and a small group of works by other artists Marisol had collected. The bequest also included the artist’s archive, library, studies, and tools.
The Buffalo AKG was the first museum to formally acquire Marisol’s work, having purchased the sculptures The Generals, 1961–62, from her solo show at the Stable Gallery in 1962 and Baby Girl, 1963, in 1964.
With this bequest, the Buffalo AKG holds the world’s most significant collection of Marisol’s work, which has brought remarkable depth and richness to the museum’s superb collection of Pop art and modern sculpture.
