FORMATION OF THE COLLECTION OF THE FOREIGN ARTISTS DURING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISTANBUL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE COLLECTION
Following the establishment of the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum in 1937, a group ofimportant figures of the Paris School were taken to the museum collection. Selahattin Refik SırmalıBey, who is the owner of the leading decoration store of the period, took an active role in theformation of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Istanbul Aydın University
2019-04-01
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| Series: | The Turkish Online Journal of Design, Art and Communication |
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| Online Access: | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tojdac/issue/44330/547821?publisher=deniz-yengin |
| Summary: | Following the establishment of the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum in 1937, a group ofimportant figures of the Paris School were taken to the museum collection. Selahattin Refik SırmalıBey, who is the owner of the leading decoration store of the period, took an active role in theformation of a foreign collection in the museum. It is also known that Léopold-Lévy, who served asthe head of painting department at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, was a contact for theintroduction of these paintings brought from Paris by Selahattin Refik. This initiative of Lévy, whowas assigned to the organization of the museum after his arrival in Istanbul, made a significantcontribution to the formation of foreign collections, and there is no indication that these works werepurchased from Selahattin Refik Sırmalı Bey in the museum records. The collection involves theleading names of modern painting like Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Utrillo, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse,Raoul Dufy, Andre Derain, as well as Charles Despiau (sculptor), Eduard Kayser, A.Dunayer deSegonzac with their prints. Foreign artists in the collection are the representatives of modern paintingof early 20th century. Their works in the collection were in the agendum of Turkish press of that periodand during the Second World War they provided a link to follow modernism in art for Turkish painterswho were not able to visit western art centres. |
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| ISSN: | 2146-5193 2146-5193 |