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Tel
Aviv
Museum
of
Art
(Hebrew:
מוזיאון
תל
אביב
לאמנות
Muzeon
Tel
Aviv
Leomanut)
is
an
art
museum
in
Tel
Aviv,
Israel.
The
Tel
Aviv
Museum
of
Art
was
established
in
1932
in
a
building
that
was
the
home
of
Tel
Aviv's
first
mayor,
Meir
Dizengoff.
The
Helena
Rubinstein
Pavilion
for
Contemporary
Art
opened
in
1959.
Planning
for
a
new
building
began
in
1963
when
the
museum's
collections
of
modern
and
contemporary
art
began
to
outgrow
the
premises.
Construction
commenced
in
1966
but
stopped
for
two
years
due
to
shortage
of
funds.
The
new
museum
moved
to
its
current
location
on
King
Saul
Avenue
in
1971.[1]
Another
wing
was
added
in
1999
and
the
Lola
Beer
Ebner
Sculpture
Garden
was
established.[2]
The
museum
also
contains
"The
Joseph
and
Rebecca
Meyerhoff
Art
Education
Center",
opened
since
1988.[3]
The
museum
houses
a
comprehensive
collection
of
classical
and
contemporary
art,
especially
Israeli
art,
a
sculpture
garden
and
a
youth
wing.
In
2018,
the
museum
set
an
all-time
attendance
record
with
1,018,323
visitors,
ranking
70th
on
the
list
of
most
visited
art
museums.[4]
In
2019,
the
museum's
ranking
rose
to
49th
with
1,322,439
visitors.
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,
key
works
by
Pablo
Picasso
from
the
Blue
and
Neo-Classical
period
to
his
Late
Period,
Cubist
paintings
by
Albert
Gleizes,
Jean
Metzinger,
several
sculptures
by
Jacques
Lipchitz,
and
Surrealists
works
of
Joan
Miró.
One
section
of
the
Museum
displays
the
history
of
Israeli
art
and
its
origins
among
local
artists
in
the
pre-state
Zionist
community
of
the
early
twentieth
century.
In
1989,
the
American
pop
artist
Roy
Lichtenstein
created
a
giant
two-panel
mural
especially
for
the
Tel
Aviv
Museum
of
Art.
It
hangs
in
the
entrance
foyer.[5]
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.
In
addition
to
a
permanent
collection,
the
museum
hosts
temporary
exhibitions
of
individual
artists'
work
and
group
shows
curated
around
a
common
theme.
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