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$6.3 million gift to Georgia Museum of Art honors painter

By Bonnie Ramsey
buramsey@uga.edu

The Georgia Museum of Art has received a gift estimated at $6.3 million from Martha Daura of Vero Beach, Fla.

This portrait of Martha Daura as a child painted by her father, Pierre, is included in her gift to the Georgia Museum of Art.

Established in honor of her father, Pierre Daura, the gift includes works of art and a cash gift of $2 million. The gift will be used to create the Pierre Daura Center in the museum and to hire a Daura Curator of European Art.
Martha Daura announced the gift Nov. 23 at the museum’s eighth biennial Elegant Salute, a fund-raising event sponsored by the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art. This year’s event, held against a backdrop of centuries-old Italian Renaissance paintings and named “Bella Sera” as a salute to Italy, raised more than $500,000.
“This generous gift will continue the museum’s rise into the upper echelon of university museums,” says President Michael F. Adams. “I am deeply grateful to Martha Daura for her gift, which will serve as a lasting memorial to her father and his love of 20th-century European and American art.”
“I am very pleased, indeed honored, that the Georgia Museum of Art, with an extensive and representative collection of art by my father, will become the center for the Daura scholarship,” Martha Daura says. “I am confident that this association with a great university and dynamic museum will make it possible for even more people, far beyond the Athens community, to enjoy and appreciate the art by Pierre Daura.”
Pierre Daura is an important figure in the history of 20th-century European and American art. He was one of the founders of the group Cercle et Carré, which believed the geometric purity of the circle and the square could be used to enrich the work of modernist artists.
Daura taught at Randolph Macon College for Women and Lynchburg College.

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