Tel Aviv Museum of Art ( he, מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות ''Muzeon Tel Aviv Leomanut'') is an art museum in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. The museum is dedicated to the preservation and display of modern and contemporary art from Israel and around the world.

History

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 Meir Dizengoff ( he, מֵאִיר דִּיזֶנְגּוֹף, russian: Меер Янкелевич Дизенгоф ''Meer Yankelevich Dizengof'', 25 February 1861 – 23 September 1936) was a Zionist leader and politician and the founder and fi ...

. The

Helena Rubinstein Helena Rubinstein (born Chaja Rubinstein; December 25, 1870 – April 1, 1965) was a Polish and American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist. A cosmetics entrepreneur, she was the founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein Incorporat ...

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. Another wing was added in 1999 and the Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden was established. The museum also contains "The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center", opened since 1988. Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2 2013

The museum houses a comprehensive collection of classical and contemporary art, especially

Israeli art Visual arts in Israel refers to plastic art created first in the region of Palestine, from the later part of the 19th century until 1948 and subsequently in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories by Israeli artists. Visual art in Israel ...

, 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 This article lists the most-visited art museums in the world in 2021. The primary source is ''The Art Newspaper'' annual survey of the number of visitors to major art museums in 2021, published 28 March 2022. Total attendance in the top one hun ...

. 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,

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, Cubism, Futurism, Russian

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, the

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movement and Surrealism, French art, from the

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and Post- Impressionists to the

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including works of

Chaïm Soutine Chaïm Soutine (13 January 1893 – 9 August 1943) was a Belarusian painter who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living and working in Paris. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the ...

, key works by

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

from the

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and Neo-Classical period to his Late Period, Cubist paintings by

Albert Gleizes Albert Gleizes (; 8 December 1881 – 23 June 1953) was a French artist, theoretician, philosopher, a self-proclaimed founder of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger wrote the first major treatise on ...

Jean Metzinger Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1 ...

, several sculptures by

Jacques Lipchitz Jacques Lipchitz (26 May 1973) was a Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of ...

, and

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s 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. 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 Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (; rus, Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, vɐˈsʲilʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐnʲˈdʲinskʲɪj; – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter a ...

. The

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, donated in 1950, includes 36 works by Abstract and

artists, including works of

Jackson Pollock Paul Jackson Pollock (; January 28, 1912August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was widely noticed for his " drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a hor ...

William Baziotes William Baziotes (June 11, 1912 – June 6, 1963) was an American painter influenced by Surrealism and was a contributor to Abstract Expressionism. Life and career Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Greek parents Angelos and Stella, ...

, and Richard Pousette-Dart, and Surrealists works by

Yves Tanguy Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy (, ), was a French surrealist painter. Biography Tanguy, the son of a retired navy captain, was born January 5, 1900, at the Ministry of Naval Aff ...

Roberto Matta Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren (; November 11, 1911 – November 23, 2002), better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art. Bio ...

, and

André Masson André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 – 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Biography Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but when he was eight his father's work took the family first briefly to Lille and then to Brussel ...

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.

Herta and Paul Amir Building

In November 2011, the Herta and Paul Amir Building on the western side of the museum opened. It houses an Israeli Architecture Archive, and a new section of

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and

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. The new building was designed by architect

Preston Scott Cohen Preston Scott Cohen is a professor of Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). In 2004, he established a partnership with two registered architects, Amit Nemlich and Gilles Quintal, and became the Design Principal of Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. base ...

. The new wing houses 18,500 square feet of gallery space over five floors. The Amir building also contains Pastel, a fine dining restaurant led by Chef Hilel Tavakuli.

Gallery

File:Gustav Klimt 051.jpg, ''Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer'', Gustav Klimt, 1916 File:Vincent Willem van Gogh 032.jpg, ''

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(after Millet)'', Vincent Willem van Gogh, 1899 File:Maurycy Gottlieb - Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur.jpg, ''

Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur ''Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur'' was painted by Polish-Jewish artist Maurycy Gottlieb in 1878. It depicts Jews in the midst of the Yom Kippur service, on one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar. Yom Kippur is the Jewish holi ...

'', Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878 File:Camille Pissarro - Rue L´Hermitage (2) - 1866-68.jpg, ''Rue L´Hermitage'', Camille Pissarro, 1866 File:Grainstack at Giverny 1889 Claude Monet Tel Aviv.jpg, '' Grainstack at Giverny'',

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Durin ...

, 1889 File:Dome of the rock, 1908 by Samuel Hirszenberg.jpg, ''Dome of the rock'', Samuel Hirszenberg, 1908 File:Henry Moore-Reclining Figure-Tel Aviv Museum of Art.jpg, '' Reclining Figure 1969–70'', Henry Moore, 1960s

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