August 23, 2001
Unicef Gets Big Art Donation; Other Gifts
The United Nations Children's Fund, or Unicef, has received a bequest of artworks worth an estimated $40-million.
Jeanne Gaffé, who died last year, donated a collection of 25 paintings and sculptures, including works by Braque, Léger, Miró, Magritte, Picasso, and Renoir, to benefit the children's charity, in New York.
Mrs. Gaffé, of Cagnes-sur-Mer, in France, had inherited the pieces from her husband, René, a Belgian businessman who died in
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