Estorick Collection

UMBERTO BOCCIONI CARLO CARRA GINO SEVERINI GIACOMO BALLA MASSIMO CAMPIGLI GIORGIO DE CHIRICO GERARDO DOTTORI EMILIO GRECO RENATO GUTTUSO GIACOMO MANZU MARINO MARINI AMEDEO MODIGLIANI GIORGIO MORANDI ZORAN MUSIC LUIGI RUSSOLO ARDENGO SOFFICI CORRADO GOVONI OTTONE ROSAI MEDARDO ROSSO GIUDITTA SCALINI MARIO SIRONI

16 January 2008 - 6 April 2008

Comprising over 120 works by many of the most prominent Italian artists of the Modernist era, the Estorick Collection opened to the public in January 1998. Described by Sir Nicholas Serota as 'one of the finest collections of early 20th century Italian art anywhere in the world', it was formed in the late 1940s and early 1950s by Eric Estorick (1913-93), an American art-dealer, writer and political scientist, and is the only collection in the United Kingdom dedicated to this turbulent and fascinating period of Italian art.

Balla and Futurist Italy: Paintings from the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome

GIACOMO BALLA UMBERTO BOCCIONI LUIGI RUSSOLO ARDENGO SOFFICI TULLIO CRALI FORTUNATO DEPERO NICOLAY DIULGHEROFF GERARDO DOTTORI FILLIA BENEDETTA MARINETTI ENRICO PRAMPOLINI

9 September 1998 - 13 December 1998

This exhibition of 23 Futurist works on loan from the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, linked the first and second waves of Futurism through the works of Giacomo Balla (1871-1958). Balla was already well established as an artist and teacher before coming under the influence of Futurism in 1910. His extraordinary versatility and creativity had a profound influence on his contemporaries and the eight canvases on show were from his most vibrant Futurist period.

More than Meets the Eye: New Research on the Estorick Collection

GIACOMO BALLA UMBERTO BOCCIONI CARLO CARRA GINO SEVERINI ARDENGO SOFFICI LUIGI RUSSOLO GIORGIO DE CHIRICO PIERO PIZZI CANNELLA

23 September 2015 - 20 December 2015

This fascinating exhibition presented the findings of a group of specialist art historians, restorers and scientists who examined key works from the Estorick’s permanent collection. Using the most up-to-date methods employed in the analysis of artworks, they shed new light on the different techniques used by a number of painters, and in some cases even revealed the presence of previously unknown images beneath, or on the back of, the Collection’s masterpieces.

Paper Trail: Prints from the Merlini Collection

CARLA ACCARDI CARLO CARRA GIORGIO DE CHIRICO RENATO GUTTUSO ALIGI SASSU MARIO TOZZI EMILIO VEDOVA MINO MACCARI MARINO MARINI ARDENGO SOFFICI GIUSEPPE VIVANI PIERO DORAZIO MARIO RADICE GIUSEPPE ZIGAINA GIOVANNI KOROMPAY

16 April 2008 - 15 June 2008

Over a period of sixty years following the Second World War, Vito Merlini (1923-2007) amassed an extraordinary collection of prints whilst working as a doctor in his Tuscan home town of Peccioli. Following his first acquisition – a lithograph by Ardengo Soffici – the collection grew until by the turn of the century it numbered around 1,000 works, comprising prints by both Italian and international artists from de Chirico to Mirò, Guttuso to Sutherland. Towards the end of his life, 279 works from the collection were presented by Merlini to Peccioli, and it is from this donation that the exhibition was drawn.