The Metropolitan Museum of Art will receive more than 200 works of Renaissance and Baroque art from Dick Wolf. The Met said on Wednesday that he would be donating a large amount of money and would name two galleries after him. Wolf has been a discreet collector in the art world, focusing his attention on older works at a time when the most well-known collectors invest in modern and contemporary art. A 15th-century Botticelli painting that sold for $4.7 million in 2012 was one of the gifts he promised the museum. Wolf is donating a piece by the artist's daughter, Artemisia, which sold for $2.1 million that year, to the newly reopened European paintings galleries. Dick Wolf said he used to visit the Met when he was a child.
Max Hollein, the Met's director and chief executive, said that he and the museum's curators cultivated a relationship with a television producer over the last three years, but he stayed away from giving advice to the market.