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Among the works she has gifted to the Detroit museum are Pablo Picasso's Girl Reading, a 1938 portrait of the artist's lover Dora Maar, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Coco, a 1905 portrait of his third son.
Amedeo Modigliani's Girl in a White Blouse, Marc Chagall's The Green Circus Rider, Henri Matisse's Anemones and Peach Blossoms and Edgar Degas's Seated Nude Woman Brushing Her Hair will become part of the museum's collection as well.
Ford also left the museum an elaborately carved wooden chest of drawers, made in 1770 at the height of American woodworking.
This is not the first generous gift to the DIA by the Fords. They donated Vincent van Gogh's portrait of the Postman Roulin to the museum.
The Detroit Institute of the Arts is the fifth largest art museum in the U.S. with 60,000 works in its collection.
A major renovation and expansion of the DIA that started in 1999 will add 77,000 square feet to the museum's current size of 600,000 square feet. The works will go on display when that renovation is completed in 2007.
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