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TheEstorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is a museum inCanonbury Square in the district ofIslington,London in theUnited Kingdom. It is the country's only gallery devoted to modern Italian art and is aregistered charity.[1]
The Estorick Collection was founded by the Americansociologist and writerEric Estorick (1913–1993), who began to collect art when he moved to England after theSecond World War. Estorick and his German-born English wife Salome (1920–1989) discoveredUmberto Boccioni's bookFuturist Painting and Sculpture (1914) while they were on their honeymoon in 1947. Before the end of their trip they visited the erstwhile FuturistMario Sironi in Milan and bought most of the contents of his studio, including hundreds of drawings. They built up the collection mainly between 1953 and 1958. The collection was shown in several temporary exhibitions, including one at theTate Gallery in London in 1956, and the key works were on long-term loan to the Tate from 1966 to 1975. The Estoricks rejected offers to purchase their collection from the Italian government and museums in the United States and Israel. Six months prior to his death Eric Estorick set up theEric and Salome Estorick Foundation, to which he donated all his Italian works.
The Estorick Collection moved to its current premises in Northampton Lodge, previously the home and office ofSirBasil Spence, the Britisharchitect, a convertedGrade II-listed Georgian house, in 1998. The project was supported by a grant from theHeritage Lottery Fund.
The core of the collection is itsFuturist works, but it also includes figurative art and sculpture dating from 1890 to the 1950s. It features paintings by Futurism's main protagonists:Giacomo Balla,Umberto Boccioni,Carlo Carrà,Gino Severini,Luigi Russolo andArdengo Soffici, and works byGiorgio de Chirico,Amedeo Modigliani,Giorgio Morandi,Mario Sironi andMarino Marini. In addition to the main displays from the permanent collection, the Estorick Collection organises temporary exhibitions.
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