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New public Impressionists, the Nabis, Fauves, enables the visitors to cross from gallery to
Expressionists, Cubists, abstract and gallery with an open view from one level to a
galleries contemporary painting) is well represented as lower-lying one and vice versa, the central
are the Jewish masters of the École de Paris — space and entrance being continually in view
Chagall, Soutine, Pascin, Modigliani, Kisling, and providing a fixed point of orientation. This
Ryback, Mintchine, Aberdam and others. An arrangement creates a congenial setting for the
important collection of Dada and Surrealism, enjoyment of art. The building will be
works of most of the modern sculptors, a fine surrounded by gardens and the design includes,
collection of works by Ensor and some seven in addition to the exhibition galleries, the large
thousand prints and drawings complete the list. entrance hall and offices, workshops, an
In 1962 the necessity for building a new and auditorium seating 55o people, a lecture hall for
larger museum was strongly felt. In a national 16o people, an art library and a cafeteria.
Tel Aviv competition, the architects I. Yashar and D. For the inauguration Dr Haim Gamzu, the
Eitan won the first prize (1963). The State Director of the Museum, organized five
The public art collections of Tel Aviv, hitherto inauguration of the building took place on temporary exhibitions in the new building :
displayed in the Dizengoff House and the 19 April 1971. It is a generous building and French Masters of the twentieth century,
Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, consist, with the large for a town of under one million Modern French Tapestry, a cross-section of
exception of a few Italian, Dutch and French inhabitants, consisting of a thirty-foot high Israeli art, a one man show of Jacques Lipschitz's
canvases of the sixteenth—eighteenth centuries, central hall and four main galleries. To avoid sculpture and drawings and finally 'Art and
of modern works. French painting from the end the sensations of fatigue and loss of orientation, Science' illuminating the intricate relationship
of the nineteenth century to the present time (i.e. the so-called 'museum stress', the architects of both in present day creativity. q
the Barbizon school, Impressionists, Post have designed the interior in a way which J. P. HODIN

The Tel Aviv Museum
Photo: Ran Erde
2 The opening of the Tel Aviv Museum
From the left -Abba Eban, Golda Meir, Haim Gamzu
(Director of the museum), Zalman Shazar, Yehoshua
Rabinowitz, Michael Landau (Chairman of the Board
of Directors)
Photo: Ran Erde
3 Interior of the Tel Aviv Museum
Photo: Ran Erde
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