The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is an art museum located in Tel Aviv and was founded in 1932: inside it houses a collection of classical and contemporary art, as well as pieces of Israeli culture.
The museum was founded in 1932 and originally housed in the house of Meir Dizengoff, mayor of Tel Aviv: subsequently, in 1959, it was moved to a room dedicated to Helena Rubinstein and in 1971 it was definitively moved to its current location. ; in 1999 the building underwent expansion works which led to the construction of a new wing and the arrangement of the garden.
The museum's collection includes works by the greatest artists of the 20th century, especially those that refer to the currents of Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Surrealism and Impressionism of the Paris school: among the artists on display are Chaïm Soutine, Gustav Klimt, Vasilij Vasil'eviÄ Kandinskij, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, especially with works dating back to the blue period and its last phase.
In 1950 the museum was enriched with the Peggy Guggenheim collection, which collects 36 works by abstract and surrealist artists such as Jackson Pollock, William Baziotes, Richard Pousette-Dart, Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta and André Masson.
In 1989 Roy Lichtenstein donated to the museum a wall panel exhibited in the entrance hall, while, in 2011, a new exhibition space of about 19,000 square meters hosts a section dedicated to photographs.
In addition to the permanent collection, the museum also hosts several temporary exhibitions and several sculptures are housed in the garden.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Address: The Golda Meir Cultural and Art Center, Sderot Sha'ul HaMelech 27
Phone: +972 3 607 7020
Site:
https://www.tamuseum.org.il/he/Location inserted by
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