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Metropolitan Museum of Art receives $1B gift of art

April 10, 2013 / 4:02 PM EDT / CBS News

Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection; (c) 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

by Fernand Leger 1917-18

Leonard A. Lauder, chairman of cosmetics giant Estee Lauder, donated 78 works of Cubist art to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, thus creating one of the foremost collections of Cubist art in the world.

Trees at L'Estaque

Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection; 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

by Georges Braque, 1908

Bottle of Rum

by Georges Braque, Spring 1914

Nude Woman in an Armchair

11_Picasso_Woman_in_an_Armchair_(Eva)_1913-crop.jpg — Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection; 2013 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

by Pablo Picasso, Summer 1909

The Scallop Shell

by Pablo Picasso, May 1912

The Violin

by Georges Braque

The Smoker

by Fernand Leger, 1914

The Absinthe Glass

Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection; 2013 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

by Pablo Picasso, Spring 1914

Woman in an Armchair

by Pablo Picasso, 1913