Milan, the world's most important collection of Futurism will arrive at the Museo del Novecento in 2022

In 2022 the precious Mattioli collection will arrive at the Museo del Novecento in Milan: this is considered the world’s most important collection of works by Futurism and theItalian avant-garde of the early 20th century. The collection includes twenty-six works, created by the most celebrated artists of the period, such as Boccioni, Balla, Carrà, Morandi and Modigliani, and was declared indivisible and irreplaceable by the state in 1973. Of great insurance value, amounting to about 143 million, the collection was transferred on free loan for five renewable years.

The transfer is very important because, in addition to the works’ own value, including Mercury Passes before the Sun by Giacomo Balla, Interventionist Manifestation by Carlo Carrà, Bottles and Fruit Bowl by Giorgio Morandi and Composition with Propeller by Mario Sironi, these will enrich and complete an already very significant and valuable collection. For example, Gino Severini ’s Blue D ancer will be added to the White Dancer already in the collection. “The Museo del Novecento,” Anna Maria Montaldo, director of the Municipality’s Modern and Contemporary Art Pole, told Ansa, “thus becomes the most important in the world on Futurism.”

The Mattioli collection was on display from 1997 to 2015 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice; in 2017 it was announced that it would go to Palazzo Citterio for two years, but the latter has not yet been opened. Works from the collection are currently on display in St. Petersburg, on the occasion of the exhibition Italian Futurism in the Mattioli Collection. Russian Cubofuturism of the Russian Museum and private collections.

They will arrive in the Lombard capital next spring and “the perspective is to present the Futurism gallery with the Mattioli collection in October 2022,” Montaldo says.

Image: Milan, Museo del Novecento, Fontana Hall. Ph. Credit Thomas Pagani

Milan, the world's most important collection of Futurism will arrive at the Museo del Novecento in 2022

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