Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo

Museum of Contemporary Art,
the University of São Paulo
Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC)
da Universidade de São Paulo
Established 1963 (1963)
Location São Paulo, Brazil
Coordinates 22°36′19″S 47°52′17″W / 22.60528°S 47.87139°W / -22.60528; -47.87139Coordinates: 22°36′19″S 47°52′17″W / 22.60528°S 47.87139°W / -22.60528; -47.87139
Collection size 8,000
Founder Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho
Website www.mac.usp.br

The Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo (Portuguese, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo) is a contemporary art museum located in the main campus of the University of São Paulo, in São Paulo, Brazil, and in Ibirapuera Park, in the same city. It is one of the largest art museums in the country.

History

The museum was inaugurated in 1963, when the Brazilian industrialist and art collector Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho, founder of the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, decided to extinguish this museum and donate all of its holdings, along with his and his wife's private collection, to the University of São Paulo.

Collection

The museum houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of 20th-century Western art in Latin America, with more than 8,000 works, comprising the most important artists, art movements, and tendencies of modern and contemporary art. Among many others, it keeps important artworks by Amedeo Modigliani, Umberto Boccioni, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Wassily Kandinsky, Tarsila do Amaral, Candido Portinari, Ismael Nery and Anita Malfatti.

Selected works from the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo
self-portrait by Modigliani
Self-portrait, 1919
Amedeo Modigliani 
painting by Ismael Nery
Nu, s.d.
Ismael Nery 
painting by Marussig
Mulheres à beira do riacho, 1915
Pietro Marussig 
painting by Paul Klee
Die Heilige vom innern Licht, 1921
Paul Klee 

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