Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan

The Galleria d'Arte Moderna ("modern art gallery") is a modern art museum in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Villa Reale, at Via Palestro 16, opposite the Giardini Pubblici. The collection consists largely of Italian and European works from the 18th to the 20th centuries.[1][2][3]

Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano
The entrance in Via Palestro
Established1921
LocationVia Palestro 16 - 20121 Milano, Italy
DirectorMarina Pugliese
CuratorPaola Zatti
Websitewww.gam-milano.com

The museum has works by Francesco Filippini, Giuseppe Ferrari, Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Boldini, Vincent van Gogh, Édouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Francesco Hayez, Giovanni Segantini, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo and Antonio Canova, among others.[4] It has received donations from Milanese families including Treves, Ponti, Grassi and Vismara.

After the Second World War the twentieth-century works in the collection were moved to the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, built in 1955 on the site of the former stables of the palace, which had been destroyed by wartime bombing.[5]

In 2011 some works were moved to the Museo del Novecento; these included Bambina che corre sul balcone by Giacomo Balla (1912), Uomo che dorme by Renato Guttuso (1938) and The Fourth Estate by Pellizza da Volpedo (1901).

In recent years the Modern Art Gallery has started a parallel program of temporary exhibitions, including a solo presentation of Tino Sehgal [6] and a selection of drawings from the UBS Art Collection curated by Francesco Bonami.[7]

Principal works

The principal works in the collection include:

  • Francesco Hayez: Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni, 1841; Penitent Mary Magdalene, 1833; Portrait of Countess Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini as a Child, 1858; Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca, 1851
  • Giovanni Segantini: Le due madri, 1889; L’angelo della vita, 1894
  • Umberto Boccioni: La madre, 1907
  • Giacomo Balla: Espansione per velocità (Velocità d’automobile), 1913-14: Morbidezze di primavera, 1918
  • Giuseppe De Nittis: Colazione a Posillipo, 1878: La femme aux pompons, 1879
  • Pablo Picasso: Tête de femme (La Mediterranée), 1957
  • Paul Gauguin: Vaches à l'abreuvoir, 1885; Donne di Tahiti, 1891
  • Vincent van Gogh: Breton Women and Children, 1888
  • Édouard Manet: Portrait of M. Arnaud, 1875
  • Paul Cézanne: Les voleurs et l'âne, 1869

References
  1. "Galleria d'Arte moderna di Milano". GAM Milano. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
  2. Le città d'arte:Milano, Guide brevi Skira, ed.2008, autori vari (Italian language).
  3. Milan, Lonely Planet Encounter Guides, 1st Edition, Jan 2009 (English language).
  4. "Le Collezioni". GAM Milano. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
  5. La villa (in Italian). Milan: Galleria d'Arte Moderna. Accessed May 2015.
  6. "Tino Sehgal alla Galeria d'Arte Moderna di Milano". Retrieved 2014-05-06.
  7. "The renowned UBS Art Collection on view at Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan". Retrieved 2014-05-06.

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