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Tel Aviv Museum of Art

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Henry Moore, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Gustav Klimt, Portrat of Friederike Maria Beer, (1916).
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Independence Hall, which housed the Tel Aviv Museum of Art until 1971, as it appears today in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art was established in 1932 at the building of Tel Aviv's first mayor's home, Meir Dizengoff. The building was also the site of the signing of Israel's Declaration of Independence and is now called the Independence Hall. The museum moved to its current location on King Saul Avenue in 1971.

The museum houses a comprehensive collection of classical and contemporary art, especially Israeli art, a sculpture garden and a youth wing.

The Museum's Israeli Art Collection reflects the history of art in the British Mandate and the State of Israel.

Permanent collection

The Museum's collection represents some of the leading artists of the first half of the 20th century and many of the major movements of modern art in this period: Fauvism, German Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Russian Constructivism, the De Stijl movement and Surrealism, French art, from the Impressionists and Post- Impressionists to the School of Paris including works of Chaim Soutine, and key works by Pablo Picasso from the Blue and Neo-Classical Period to his Late Period, and Surrealists works of Joan Miró.

Figuring prominently in the collection are works by several modern masters, including Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Alfred Sisley, Henri Edmond Cross, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Marc Chagall.

The Collection includes several masterpieces, among them the painting Friedericke Maria Beer, 1916 by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt and Untitled Improvisation V, 1914, by the Russian master Wassily Kandinsky.

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, donated in 1950, includes 36 works by Abstract and Surrealist artists, including works of Jackson Pollock, William Baziotes, and Richard Pousette-Dart, and Surrealists works by Yves Tanguy, Roberto Matta, and André Masson.

Sculptures are displayed in the entrance plaza and in an internal sculpture garden. The artists represented by major outdoor sculptures include Arman, Zadok Ben-David, Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, Lynn Chadwick, Sandro Chia, Yitzhak Danziger, Ya'acov Dorchin, Benni Efrat, Belu-Simion Fainaru, Dov Feigin, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Dan Graham, Emanuel Hatzofe, Barbara Hepworth, Menashe Kadishman, Ofer Lellouche, Maya Cohen Levy, Jacques Lipchitz, Ju Ming, Motti Mizrachi, Henry Moore, Avraham Ofek, Chana Orloff, Buky Schwartz, and Ossip Zadkine.

Temporary exhibitions

In addition to a permanent collection, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions of individual artists' work and group shows curated around a common theme. In 2006, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art displayed exhibits including Michal Rovner: Fields with large-scale video works and installations that were also shown in Venice and at the Jeu de Paume in Paris; and Disengagement with both photographs and video works revolving around the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier. This exhibition, which sought to present a wide spectrum of views, included the work of over twenty artists.

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