The Galleria d'Arte Moderna is a modern art museum in

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, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Villa Reale, at Via Palestro 16, opposite the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli. The collection consists largely of Italian and European works from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The museum has works by Francesco Filippini, Giuseppe Ferrari, Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Boldini,

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, Édouard Manet,

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, Umberto Boccioni,

Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez (; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and ...

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, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo and Antonio Canova, among others. Works have been donated by Milanese families including the Treves, Ponti, Grassi and Vismara. After the

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the twentieth-century works in the collection were moved to the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, built in 1955 on the site of the former stables of the palace, which had been destroyed by wartime bombing. In 2011 some works were moved to the Museo del Novecento; these included ''Bambina che corre sul balcone'' by

(1912), ''Uomo che dorme'' by Renato Guttuso (1938) and '' The Fourth Estate'' by

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(1901). The museum holds some temporary exhibitions; in 2008 works by Tino Sehgal were presented.

Principal works

The principal works in the collection include: * Francesco Hayez: '' Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni'', 1841; ''Penitent Mary Magdalene'', 1833; '' Portrait of Countess Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini as a Child'', 1858; '' Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca'', 1851 * Giovanni Segantini: ''Le due madri'', 1889; ''L'angelo della vita'', 1894 * Umberto Boccioni: ''La madre'', 1907 * Giacomo Balla: ''Espansione per velocità (Velocità d'automobile)'', 1913-14: ''Morbidezze di primavera'', 1918 * Giuseppe De Nittis: ''Colazione a Posillipo'', 1878: ''La femme aux pompons'', 1879 * Pablo Picasso: ''Tête de femme (La Mediterranée)'', 1957 * Paul Gauguin: ''Vaches à l'abreuvoir'', 1885; ''Donne di Tahiti'', 1891 * Vincent van Gogh: ''Breton Women and Children'', 1888 * Édouard Manet: ''Portrait of M. Arnaud'', 1875 * Paul Cézanne: ''Les voleurs et l'âne'', 1869

Gallery

File:Villa reale 05 van gogh.jpg, Van Gogh, ''Breton Women and Children'', 1888 File:Segantini Die beiden Mütter.jpg, Segantini, ''The two mothers'', 1889 File:Francesco Hayez - Ritratto della contessina Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini.jpg, Hayez, ''Ritratto della contessina Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini'', 1858 File:Paul Gauguin- Cattle Drinking.JPG, Gauguin, ''Vaches à l'abreuvoir'', 1885 File:Édouard Manet - Cavalier (Portrait équestre de M. Arnaud).jpg, Manet, ''Portrait of M. Arnaud'', 1875.

References

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