Utrillo

He lived in Montmartre, where he quickly befriended the likes of Pablo Picasso, Chaim Soutine — a fellow Jewish expatriate — and Maurice Utrillo, the son of the artist Suzanne Valadon.

At 18 she gave birth to a son, whom her friend Miguel Utrillo later endowed with a surname, though he may not have been the father.

Its permanent collection covers major artistic trends since the beginning of the 20th century, with works by Picasso, Dufy, Modigliani, Rouault, Léger, Braque, Utrillo, Giacometti and Rauschenberg.

In 1950, Mr. Wu returned to China after three years of study in Paris, where he came under the spell of van Gogh, Utrillo and Modigliani and enthusiastically embraced modernism’s license to experiment.

Their first art purchase was a fake Utrillo, she said.