The Los Angeles County Museum of Art said it's been given a major collection of modern art, including 130 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and other 20th-century masters. The collection was assembled over decades by composer Henri Lazarof and his wife, Janice. Henri Lazarof, 75, was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, trained in Israel and Rome, and served since 1959 on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is now an emeritus professor. Janice Lazarof is a daughter of the late L.A. banker and philanthropist Mark Taper. The "fractional and partial" gift, in which title passes to the museum over a number of years, includes 20 paintings and drawings by Picasso, seven bronze sculptures and a painting by Alberto Giacometti, 11 drawings by Klee, two versions of "Bird in Space" by sculptor Constantin Brancusi, and late 19th-century works by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro. Stephanie Barron, the museum's senior curator of modern art, said the Lazarof gift would transform the permanent collection of modern art. The gift is "a culmination of years of hard work," she said.