Bequests | Loss and Restitution: The Story of the Grunwald Family Collection Digital Archive

The thousands of works from Fred Grunwald's collection that were donated to UCLA did not arrive in a single bequest. Rather, they were given over the course of three decades, by Fred himself and by his heirs after his death. The pages below divide the artworks into five bequests that demonstrate the range and quality of Grunwald's collection, and together represent the foundation of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grunwald

The largest of the Grunwald family's five original gifts, the works given by Fred Grunwald and his second wife, Saidee Grunwald, between 1954 and 1964 comprise roughly 1,800 objects.

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Henri Georges Adam, The Lady in the Die, 1951

Fernand Léger, Head and Cactus, ca. 1955

Mario Avati, Still Life with Artichokes, 1959

The Fred Grunwald Collection

The 95 works given to the Grunwald Center in 1965 from Fred Grunwald's estate are among the most significant works that Grunwald collected.

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Edvard Munch, On the Waves of Love, 1896

Emil Nolde, Kopf im Doppellicht (Head in the Double Light), 1906

Pablo Picasso, Three Women, 1959

Gift of Saidee Grunwald

Fred Grunwald's widow, Saidee, continued to give works to the collection between 1965, the year after Fred's death, and 1977, donating almost 300 objects.

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Joseph Sattler, Untitled, 1898-1904

Seong Moy, Two Circus Acts in One, 1953

June Wayne, Study for the Wing of a Devil, 1955

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Talpis

Fred Grunwald's daughter, Lotte Talpis, and her husband, Stanley, shared Fred Grunwald's love of prints, and donated almost 1,000 works to the Grunwald Center between 1954 and 1986.

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Louis John Rhead, Woman with Peacocks, 1897

Oskar Kokoschka, Self-Portrait from Two Sides, 1923

Reva Urban, Red City - A Child's World (XII), August 7-22, 1962

Gift of Ernest and Esther Grunwald

The 83 gifts to the Grunwald Center by Fred Grunwald's son Ernest and his wife Esther include nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by important German and Italian artists.

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Giorgio de Chirico, ... e le stelle del cielo caddero sulla terra. (Rev. 6:12-), 1888-1969

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Color Dance, 1933

Marc Chagall, The Fox and the Sculpture, 1952