With the finality of enriching the collection of Latin American art in the Museum of Modern Art, Patricia Phelps of Cisneros gave nine paintings and sculptures of important figures of modern art from Latin America. Cisneros invited the Museum¿s Department of Painting and Sculpture to identify the works that contribute to and establish continuity within the already existing collection in MOMA. Various absences of artists from the Argentinean Arte Concreto Invención movement and the Madi movement as well as the Brazilian Concretism and Neoconcretism and from the first stage of the modernist period of Venezuela and Uruguay. Amongst the donated pieces are works by Armando Reverón (Venezuela, 1889-1954), Lygia Clark (Brasil, 1920-1988) and Gyula Kosice (Argentina, 1924). The group also includes an oil by Joaquín Torres García (Uruguay, 1874-1949); an oil on wood by Hélio Oiticica (Brasil, 1937-1980); and two works by Venezuelan artists, Gego (1912-1994) and Jesús Soto (1923). Some of these pieces will be shown in the new galleries of painting and sculpture when the museum reopens its doors in November.