76. Berardo Collection Museum

A Metro ride then a tram takes me to the Belem Centro Cultural Centre - a huge complex covering 6 acres completed in 1997 and housing a Conference Centre, Entertainment Complex and Exhibition Halls. My destination here is the Berardo Collection Museum.

This large museum of modern and contemporary art - inaugurated in 2007 and housed on two floors - takes the viewer on a diverse journey of the art movements from the early 20th century to present day.

 

Pelas Janelas - Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso - Portugal - oils - 1914

 

Balance - Francis Picabia - France - oils - 1918

 

Guitar, Chair and Shapes - Clement-Serveau - France - oils - 1925  

 

Constructive - Joaquin Torres-Garcia - Uruguay - oils - 1929

 

Figure a la bougle - Joan Miro - Spain - oils - 1925

 

 

Lunguanda Yembe - Wilfredo Lam - Cuba - oils - 1938

 

Magnetic Mountain - Kurt Seligmann - USA - oils - 1949

 

White Aphrodisiac Telephone - Salvador Dali - Spain - 1936

 

Café Man Ray - Man Ray - USA - mixed media - 1944

 

 

Gallery Guard on his I-Phone !!!

 

Attic View - Francis Gruber - France - oils - 1946

 

Donna Sdralata - Emilio Greco - Italy - bronze - 1951

 

Standing Figure - Kenneth Armitage - UK - bronze - 1954

 

Marquette for Teddy Boy and Girl - Lynn Chadwick - UK - ferro iron - 1954

 

Together - Lynn Chadwick - UK - ferro iron - 1957

 

Head - Jackson Pollock - USA - oils - 1939

 

Lucky Seven - Joan Mitchell - USA - oils - 1962

 

 

Composition - Maria-Helena Vieira da Silva - France - oils - 1948 

 

Peinture - Pierre Soulages - France - oils - 1963 

Presenza N5V - Emilio Vedova - Italy - oils - 1959 

 

Composition - Gunther Uecker - Germany - painted nails - 1963 

 

Oedipus and the Sphinx - Francis Bacon - UK - oils - 1983

... apologies for the reflexions in the glass ... 

 

Two Nudes - Philip Sylvio Pearlistein - USA - oils - 1963 

 

Royal Tide, Dawn - Louise Nevelson - Ukraine - painted wood - 1964

 

 

Picture Emphasizing Stillness - David Hockney - UK - oils -1962

 

Man Playing Snooker - Derek Boshier - UK - oils - 1961

 

Man and Woman - Alex Katz - USA - oils - 1960

 

Mirror - Roy Lichtenstein - USA - oils - 1971

 

 

144th Travertine Integer - Carl Andre - USA - stone blocks - 1985

 

Jose Berardo - Julio Pomar - Portugal - oils - 2004 

 

Abstract Painting - Gerhard Richter - Germany - oils - 1987

 

Let me fix my earing first - Sue Williams - USA - acrylics - 1997

 

Wasting my time with you - Juliao Sarmento - Portugal - mixed media - 1991

 

door to the mens !!!

 

door to the womens !!!

 

Black Spray - Alexander Calder - USA - metal mobile - 1956

A perfect gallery with wonderfully curated artworks and very few people to tread on my toes while I wandered and absorbed - a joy to spend a couple of hours with ... next blog posting we'll stay in Belem and I'll take you somewhere totally different ...