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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Screw SL" data-source="post: 14770986" data-attributes="member: 455444">මෙන්න බලපන්කො දන් දීම.. OMG!!!!!10 April 2013 Last updated at 11:12 GMT                    New York Metropolitan Museum of Art receives $1bn donation                                                                      <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66918000/jpg/_66918457_newyorkmet.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />      The 78 cubist works will transform the Met's 20th Century art collection                 <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22090326#story_continues_1" target="_blank">Continue reading the main story</a>                       New  York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has received a $1bn (£650m) donation  of Cubist art from cosmetics executive, Leonard Lauder.          The heir to the Estee Lauder fortune has pledged 78 works - considered one of the foremost collections of Cubism in the world.         It includes pieces from Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Leger which were amassed over 37 years.          Museum director Thomas Campbell said the gift was "truly transformational".      <img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66918000/jpg/_66918339_66918335.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />      Leonard Lauder amassed the art collection over four decades          In a statement, Lauder, 80, said his gift was for "the people  who live and work in New York and those from around the world who come  to visit our great arts institutions".         The Met said it had previously "lacked" early 20th Century  art, but with Lauder's donation it would be at the forefront of world  collections.          "We have long lacked this critical dimension in the story of  modernism. Now, Cubism will be represented with some of its greatest  masterpieces," Campbell said.         The collection "distinguished by its quality, focus, and  depth," includes 33 Picassos, 17 works by Braque and 14 by Gris and  Leger.         Lauder built it up over nearly four decades, telling the  story of a movement that revolutionised modern art and paved the way for  abstraction.          "I selected the Met as the way to share this collection  because I feel that it's essential that Cubism - and the art that  follows it, for that matter - be seen and studied within the collections  of one of the greatest encyclopaedic museums in the world," he said.        <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22090326#story_continues_2" target="_blank">Continue reading the main story</a></blockquote>

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