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With this exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York: Chefs-d’oeuvre de la peinture européenne, the Fondation Pierre Gianadda at Martigny continues its collaboration with New York’s Metropolitan Museum. In 1989, the Metropolitan exhibited the great Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection of twentieth-century European art. Léonard Gianadda, working with the Museum and Mrs. Gelman, secured the collection for exhibition at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda in the summer of 1994. Since 1996, the Metropolitan has lent works to important exhibitions at Martigny devoted to the painters Manet, Modigliani, Gauguin, Morisot, and Signac. In 2004 the Metropolitan assisted in bringing to the foundation the treasures of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, Egypt. Now, for the first time, the Fondation Pierre Gianadda presents an entire exhibition devoted to works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, comprising fifty Old Master and nine