Modern and Contemporary Art

The Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art was established as early as the 1930s, prior to the formal opening of the Museum in 1932. From the start, this Collection was characterized by its rapid growth, with the help of gifts from collectors worldwide. The Collection of Modern Art focuses on the main

trends of Modernism, from Impressionism and Post Impressionism, to the art of the 1960s, and is complemented by the Contemporary Art collection which is constantly expanding. Several of the Department's more important collections and groups of works deserve special mention. The Mizne-Blumental Collection of 20th-century modern masters, represents many of the important movements in modern art during the first half of the century: Fauvism, German Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Russian Constructivism, De Stijl, and Surrealism. The Collection includes a number of masterpieces, such as Gustav Klimt's Friedericke Maria Beer , 1916, and Untitled Improvisation V , 1914, by Vassily Kandinsky. Several great modern masters, including Paul Cezanne, Alfred Sisley, Henri Edmond Cross, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Marc Chagall, are represented in the Simon and Marie Jaglom Collection, which focuses on French art of the turn of the century, the period of the inception of Modernism. The Moshe and Sara Mayer Collection also presents outstanding examples of the main modern art movements: Impressionism (works by Degas,Renoir, Monet, Pissarro), Post-Impressionism (Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne), Intimisme (Bonnard, Vuillard), Cubism (Braque, Leger, Gleizes, Metzinger), German Expressionism (Jawlensky), Surrealism (Miro), the School of Paris (Soutine) as well as important works by Picasso, from the Blue, Neo-Classical, and late period. The Sam and Ayala Zacks Collection highlights the main progressive currents in 20th-century art, and is on permanent loan to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Joel Shapiro Untitled, 1991 Bronze, Figure: 167x183x90 cm House: 53x66x45 cm Acquired through the contribution of the Pierre and Maniusia Gildesgame Estate with the assistance of the British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection features Abstract and Surrealist artists, and in particular those representing the beginning of American Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, Baziotes, Pousette-Dart), Geometrical Abstraction (Nicholson, Vordemberge-Gildewart) and Surrealism (Tanguy, Matta, Masson). The forty-nine plaster and terra cotta sketches donated by The Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Foundation reflect the various themes which preoccupied Lipchitz over the years, and the styles marking different periods in the artist's work. A large and very important group of unique early works by the Ukrainian artist, Alexander Archipenko, are displayed in The Erich Goeritz Collection. Examples of Geometrical Abstraction in modern art, from Russian Constructivism to the advent of the De Stijl movement in Holland, the Bauhaus movement in Germany and American Minimalism in the 1970s, can be found in The Riklis Collection of McCrory Corporation, New York.

Meyer Vaisman Untitled Turkey XV, 1992 Stuffed turkey and mixed media on wood base. Sculpture: 35.5x81x76.2 cm Base: 81.2x44x94 cm Gift of Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder, New York, to the American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Donated by Oscar Fischer and Maurice Lewin of Antwerp, The Collection of works by James Ensor  features seventeen works by this important Belgian painter, representing various periods in his artistic career. The Helene and Zygfryd Wolloch Collection of Modern Sculpture spans over one hundred years, from the early sculpture of Rodin (1875) to the work of Pomodoro (1985). Other artists represented in the Collection are Jean Arp, Chana Orloff, Fernando Botero, Alberto Giacometti, Julio Gonzalez, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, George Rickey, and more.

Marc Chagall Solitude, 1933 Oil on canvas, 102 x 169 cm Gift of the Artist.

Shirin Neshat Untitled (Rapture series), 1999: Group of Women in Desert Photograph, 110 x 173.5 cm Gift of the Estate of Dr. Sullivan Kaufmann through the British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel Marcel Janco Ball in Zurich, 1915 Oil on canvas, 100 x 90 cm Donated through the Tel Aviv Foundation for Development Mimmo Paladino Will Have No Title, 1991 Bronze and lacquered mazonite, 250 x 1000 cm Gift of Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz, Milan Edgar Degas Dancer Looking at the Sole of her Foot , 1900-1910 Bronze, 47.5 x 21 x 17 cm Presented in memory of Erich J. Goeritz by his sons Thomas and Andrew The Museum Collections James Ensor My Favorite Room , 1892 Oil on canvas, 80 x 99.7 cm Gift of Oscar and Shulamit Fischer's children, Tel Aviv Pierre-Auguste Renoir Portrait of Misia Sert, 1904 Oil on canvas, 55.5 x 66.5 cm Bequest of Dr. Herman Lorber, New York