Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)

Coordinates: 34°35′2.6″S 58°23′34.1″W / 34.584056°S 58.392806°W / -34.584056; -58.392806
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National Museum of Fine Arts
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Facade of the museum in 2017
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) is located in Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)
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Established25 December 1896 (25 December 1896)
LocationAvenida del Libertador 1473
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Coordinates34°35′2.6″S 58°23′34.1″W / 34.584056°S 58.392806°W / -34.584056; -58.392806
TypeArt museum
DirectorAndrés Duprat
Websitebellasartes.gob.ar

The National Museum of Fine Arts (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes) is an Argentine art museum in Buenos Aires, located in the Recoleta section of the city. The Museum inaugurated a branch in Neuquén in 2004. The museum hosts works by Goya, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Rodin, Manet and Chagall among other artists.

History

Former Argentine Pavilion at the Universal Exhibition served as seat of the museum in Plaza San Martín from 1910 to 1932
The Casa de Bombas building c. 1900, the current location of the museum

Argentine painter and art critic

International Centenary Exhibition held in Buenos Aires in 1910. Following the demolition of the pavilion in 1932, as part of the remodeling of Plaza San Martín, the museum was transferred to its present location in 1943, a building originally constructed in 1870 as a drainage pumping station and adapted to its current use by architect Alejandro Bustillo
.

The museum was modernized both physically and in its collections during the 1955–64 tenure of director

avant-garde artists, and elsewhere; a contemporary Argentine art pavilion opened in 1980. This 1,536 square metres (16,533 sq ft) hall is the largest of 34 currently in use at the museum, which totals 4,610 square metres (49,622 sq ft) of exhibit space. Its permanent collection totals 688 major works and over 12,000 sketches, fragments, potteries, and other minor works. The institution also maintains a specialized library, totaling 150,000 volumes, as well as a public auditorium. The museum commissioned architect Mario Roberto Álvarez to design a branch in the Patagonian region city of Neuquén
. Inaugurated in 2004, this museum has four exhibit halls totaling 2,500 square metres (26,910 sq ft) and a permanent collection of 215 works, as well as temporary exhibits and a public auditorium.

The ground floor of the museum holds 24 exhibit halls housing a fine international collection of paintings from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century, together with the museum's art history library. The first floor's eight exhibit halls contain a collection of paintings by some of the most important 20th-century Argentine painters, including Antonio Berni, Ernesto de la Cárcova, Benito Quinquela Martín, Eduardo Sívori, Sarah Grilo, Alfredo Guttero, Raquel Forner, Xul Solar, Marcelo Pombo and Lino Enea Spilimbergo. The second floor's two halls, completed in 1984, hold an exhibition of photographs and two sculpture terraces, as well as most of the institution's administrative and technical departments.

Gallery

  • Flemish Baroque, Allegory of Fortune and Virtue, Rubens, 17th century
    Flemish Baroque, Allegory of Fortune and Virtue, Rubens, 17th century
  • Dutch Baroque, Portrait of Young Woman, Rembrandt, 1634
    Dutch Baroque, Portrait of Young Woman, Rembrandt, 1634
  • Dutch Baroque, Landscape with the Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg, Cuyp, 1645
    Dutch Baroque, Landscape with the Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg, Cuyp, 1645
  • Argentine naturalism, A Stop in the Countryside, Pueyrredón, 1861
    Argentine naturalism, A Stop in the Countryside, Pueyrredón, 1861
  • French Impressionism, The Bridge of Argenteuil, Monet, 1875
    French Impressionism, The Bridge of Argenteuil, Monet, 1875
  • French naturalism, Portrait of Ernest Hoschedé and his daughter Martha, Manet, 1876
    French naturalism, Portrait of Ernest Hoschedé and his daughter Martha, Manet, 1876
  • French Impressionism, The Banks of the Seine, Monet, 1880
    French Impressionism, The Banks of the Seine, Monet, 1880
  • Portrait of Suzanne Valadon, 1885, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
    Portrait of Suzanne Valadon, 1885, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • French academic art, The First Mourning, Bouguereau, 1888
    French academic art, The First Mourning, Bouguereau, 1888
  • Argentine naturalism, Interior view of Curuzú looked upstream, López, 1891
    Argentine naturalism, Interior view of Curuzú looked upstream, López, 1891
  • Argentine naturalism, The return of the malón, Della Valle, 1892
    Argentine naturalism, The return of the malón, Della Valle, 1892
  • Argentine naturalism, After the Battle of Curupaytí, López, 1893
    Argentine naturalism, After the Battle of Curupaytí, López, 1893
  • Argentine naturalism, Without bread and without work, Cárcova, 1894
    Argentine naturalism, Without bread and without work, Cárcova, 1894
  • French Impressionism, Dancers and Two Yellow Roses, Degas, 1898
    French Impressionism, Dancers and Two Yellow Roses, Degas, 1898
  • Argentine symbolism, Nocturnal, Malharro, 1910
    Argentine symbolism, Nocturnal, Malharro, 1910
  • Argentine Impressionism, The Haystacks (The Pampa of Today), Malharro, 1911
    Argentine Impressionism, The Haystacks (The Pampa of Today), Malharro, 1911
  • German symbolism, Batsheba, Stuck, 1912
    German symbolism, Batsheba,
    Stuck
    , 1912

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