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.

Against Mussolini: Art and the Fall of a Dictator

RENATO GUTTUSO TONO ZANCANARO MARIO MAFAI MINO MACCARI FRANCO GARELLI GINO SEVERINI GIACOMO MANZU

22 September 2010 - 19 December 2010

Whilst several major exhibitions have explored the propaganda imagery of Fascist Italy, art produced by those opposed to Mussolini and his regime has received surprisingly little attention. Against Mussolini brought together works produced in Italy and abroad throughout the Fascist era (1922- 43), but focused particularly on the period immediately after the dictator's fall from power following Italy's disastrous Second World War campaign. These last tragic years saw the re-emergence of Mussolini as the puppet leader of a Fascist administration in the north of the country and the onset of a bitter civil war, as the Resistance fought alongside the Allies to restore democracy and liberate Italy from tyranny.

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.

The Enchanted Room: Modern Works from the Pinacoteca di Brera

CARLO CARRA UMBERTO BOCCIONI GINO SEVERINI GIORGIO MORANDI MARIO SIRONI GIORGIO DE CHIRICO OSVALDO LICINI FILIPPO DE PISIS MASSIMO CAMPIGLI

24 January 2018 - 8 April 2018

The Estorick opened its 20th anniversary year with a major exhibition of works from one of the world’s most important collections of modern Italian art, housed at Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera.