Wednesday to Saturday 11.00 - 18.00
Sunday 12.00 - 17.00
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
39a Canonbury Square
London N1 2AN
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The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is a museum in Canonbury Square, London. It is the United Kingdom's only gallery devoted to modern Italian art and is a registered charity under English law.
It was founded by Eric Estorick, an American sociologist and writer who began seriously collecting works of art after he came to live in England following the Second World War. His wife and his collection took shape between 1953 and 1958 and was displayed in a series of major public exhibitions between 1954 and 1960, both in Britain and abroad, including a show at the Tate Gallery in 1956.
The Tate Gallery requested a long-term loan of key works from the Estoricks’ Italian collection, which lasted from 1966 until 1975, when they withdrew their pictures.
Six months prior to his death (1993), Estorick set up the Eric and Salome Estorick Foundation, to which he donated the couple’s Italian collection. In 1994 the Georgian house at 39a Canonbury Square was purchased to house the works.
The Estorick Collection brings together some of the finest and most important works created by Italian artists during the first half of the twentieth century. It is perhaps best known for its outstanding core of Futurist works. A number of sculptors are also represented in the Collection.
Sergio Strizzi (1931-2004) was a still photographer who worked on some of the most important film sets both in Italy and abroad from the 1950s to the early 2000s. This exhibition, organised in collaboration with Rome’s Archivio Sergio Strizzi, comprises some 80 images spanning the photographer’s entire career, and is the first survey of his work in the UK.