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...Nasli Heeramaneck migrated to the U.S. from India in 1927 with two main possessions: $75 in cash and a trunkful of objets d'art and Oriental miniatures. The son of a Bombay art dealer and a descendant of a long line of Parsis (a sect that left Persia in about the 8th century and settled in India), Heeramaneck quickly found a ready market in America. From that day forward, his policy became, as his wife Alice puts it, to "buy five, sell four and keep the best for himself...
...Heeramaneck's eye for quality, however, was so sharp that even his "second bests" were good enough to ensure him a blue-chip roster of clients, including some of the top U.S. museums. In the process, he built up his own private collections-not only from his native subcontinent, but also of pre-Columbian and Persian art. When a choice selection from Heeramaneck's Indian collection toured four U.S. museums two years ago, curators eyed them avidly and wondered which lucky museum would acquire...
Last week the Los Angeles County Museum of Art jubilantly announced that it had acquired from Heeramaneck, now 67, the bulk of his Indian collection -345 items-for $2,500,000, after Heeramaneck's negotiations with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts fell through. With one single purchase, Los Angeles has thus acquired an Indian collection that ranks alongside those of Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art and Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Gallery. The museum plans to capitalize on its new trove by building up its Oriental library, and to further attract scholars to the area...
...Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection of Indian and Nepali Art the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, closed yesterday. The Collection spanned four millennia, from 2,000 B.C. to the mid-20th century, and included 300 of the finest examples of sculpture, palm leaf manuscripts, paintings, textiles, and decorative arts outside India...
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