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The Berardo Collection Museum (in Portuguese: Museu Colecção Berardo) was a museum of modern and contemporary art in Belém, a district of Lisbon, Portugal. It was replaced by the Contemporary Art Museum - Centro Cultural de Belém in January 2023.
History
In 2006, after 10 years of negotiations, José Berardo signed an agreement with the Portuguese government to loan art from his collection on a long-term basis to the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon. Under the partnership agreement the Portuguese state incurs the costs of displaying Berardo's collection. The art holdings themselves are owned and managed by a company known as the Berardo Collection Association. The museum was formally initiated as the Foundation of Modern and Contemporary Art on August 9, 2006 (Decree-Law 164/2006). It was inaugurated on June 25, 2007 and is named after Berardo and his collection. At the time, auction house Christie's valued the exhibited works at around 316 million euros ( million). While the contract is still in force, however, the Berardo Collection Association may not sell cultural goods. The agreement was renewed in 2017 giving the Portuguese government the option to purchase works from the collection until the agreements ends in late 2022.
Since its opening, the collection was located at the Exhibition Center of the Centro Cultural de Belém, with over 1,000 works of art on permanent display and temporary exhibitions. From its opening until April 2011, the museum's art director was Jean-François Chougnet, who was then replaced by Pedro Lapa.
The Berardo Collection was seized by the Portuguese state in 2019 after Berardo failed to pay three Portuguese banks the more than $1 billion debt that he owed. The artworks were placed as collateral for the bank loans. From 2023, parts of the collection became part of the inaugural presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Belém Cultural Center (CCB).
Collection
The collection was arranged in strictly linear fashion, leading visitors though a line of line of rooms with austere white walls on which are displayed examples of notable works of modern art with explanatory text offering a textbook-like survey of modern Western art from surrealism to pop art, hyper-realism, minimalist art to conceptual art in chronological order.
The museum had an extensive permanent collection and also hosts temporary exhibitions that change on a regular basis. The permanent collection is valued by the auction house Christie's at €316 million.
= List of important movements and artists
=Abstract Expressionism
Philip Guston, Untitled, 1957
Joan Mitchell, Lucky Seven, 1962
Lee Krasner, Visitation, 1973
Sam Francis, Untitled, 1979
Willem de Kooning, Untitled, c. 1976
Lee Krasner, Visitation, 1957
Abstraction-Création
Georges Vantongerloo, SXR/3, 1936
Action Painting
Jackson Pollock, Head, 1941
Franz Kline, Sabro, 1956
Body Art
Cindy Sherman, Untitled (Film Still Nº37), 1979
Constructivism
El Lissitzky, Kestnermappe Proun, Rob. Levnis and Chapman GmbH Hannover, 1923
Aleksandr Rodtsjenko, Portrait V. Majakowski, 1924
Cubism
Albert Gleizes, Woman and Child, 1927
Pablo Picasso, Tête de Femme, c.1909
De Stijl
Piet Mondrian, Tableau (yellow, black, blue, red and grey), 1923
Vilmos Huszár, Untitled, 1924
Georges Vantongerloo, Studies I, 1918
Digital Art
Robert Silvers, JFK, 5/6, 2002
Experimental Art
Ana Hatherly, O Pavão Negro, 1999
Geometric Abstraction
Nadir Afonso, Marcoule, 1962
Kinetic Art
Pol Bury, Mélangeur, 1961
Alexander Calder, Black Spray, 1956
Jean Tinguely, Indian Chief, 1961
Minimal art
Carl Andre, 144th Travertine Integer, 1985
Richard Artschwager, Trunk, 1964
Larry Bell, Vertical Gradient on the Long Length, 1995
Anthony Caro, Fleet, 1971
Dan Flavin, Untitled (Monument to Vladimir Tatlin), 1964
Ellsworth Kelly, Yellow Relief with Blue, 1991
Sol LeWitt, Eight Sided Pyramid, 1992
Richard Serra, Point Load, 1988
Frank Stella, Hagamatana II, 1967
Agnes Martin, Untitled #5, 1989
Neo-Expressionism
Georg Baselitz, Blonde ohne Stahlhelm- Otto D. (Blonde Without Helmet - Otto D.), 1987
Anselm Kiefer, Elisabeth von Österreich, 1991
Gerhard Ritchter, Abstraktes Bild, 1987
Neo-Plasticism
Piet Mondrian, Composition of Yellow, Black, Bleu and Grey, 1923
Neo-Realism
Mário Dionísio, O Músico, 1948
Op art
Bridget Riley, Orient IV, 1970
Victor Vasarely, Bellatrix II, 1957
Photography
Pepe Diniz, various works
Jemima Stehli, various works
Manuel Casimiro, Cidade 1, 1972
Victor Palla, various works
Photorealism
Tom Blackwell, Gary's Hustler, 1972
Robert Cottingham, Dr. Gibson, 1971
Don Eddy, Toyota Showroom Window I, 1972
Pop art
Clive Barker, Fridge, 1999
Peter Blake, Captain Webb Matchbox, 1962
Jim Dine, Black Child's Room, 1962
Richard Hamilton, Epiphany, 1989
David Hockney, Picture Emphasizing Stillness, 1962
Edward Kienholz, Drawing for the Soup Course at The She She Cafe, 1982
Phillip King, Through, 1965
Roy Lichtenstein, Interior with Restful Paintings, 1991
Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude #52, 1963
Nicholas Monro, ???
Claes Oldenburg, Soft Light Switches 'Ghost' Version, 1963
Sigmar Polke, Bildnis Helmut Klinker, 1965
Mel Ramos, Virnaburger, 1965
James Rosenquist, F-111, 1974
George Segal, Flesh Nude behind Brown Door, 1978
Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup en various other works, 1965
Evelyne Axell, L'Oeil de la Tigresse, 1964
Mark Lancaster, various works
Realism
Philip Pearlstein, Two Figures, 1963
Suprematism
Kasimir Malevich, Suprematism: 34 Drawings, 1920
Ljoebov Popova, various compositions
Surrealism
Eileen Agar, Snake Charmer, 1936
Hans Bellmer, La Toupie, 1956
Gerardo Chávez, Vogteren Fro Fortides Kaos, 1979
Salvador Dalí, White Aphrodisiac Telephone, 1936
Julio González, Femme au Miroir Rouge, Vert et Jaune, 1936
André Masson, Eleusis, 1963
Pablo Picasso, Femme dans un Fauteuil, 1929
Man Ray, Café Man Ray, 1948
Paule Vézelay, Les Ballons et les Vases, 1934
Paul Delvaux, Le Bain des Dames chez George Grard (S. Idesbald), 1947
Fernando Lemos, various works
Fees
Admission was €5, visits to some of the temporary exhibitions may have an additional charge.
Location, access and facilities
The museum was located in the Belém Cultural Center, being the center of the modern cultural life of Lisbon. Across the street, is the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos.
Sources
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portuguese Wikipedia.
References
External links
Museu Colecção Berardo website (in Portuguese)
The Berardo Collection website (in English)
Virtual tour of the Berardo Collection Museum provided by Google Arts & Culture
Media related to Museu Coleção Berardo at Wikimedia Commons
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