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The Museu de Arte Moderna (Museum of Modern Art) of Rio de Janeiro has one of the
most impressive art collections of the 20th century in Brazil. The patrimony began to be gathered in the 40’s, with the donation of artists,
businessmen and other institutions. The works presents a perspective of the art evolution, with specimen of national and international painters,
representatives of all the great vanguard movements of the past century.
Although the pieces quantity, in 1978 the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro
suffered priceless losses in a fire. Among the destroyed works were paintings of Picasso, Miró and Salvador Dali. Several museums from all around
the world donated paintings to the patrimony remake.
Nowadays, the collection of MAM has around 15 thousand pieces, among sculptures,
paintings and pictures. One of the most valuable works in MAM’s patrimony is the gigantic painting of Georges Matthieu "Morte Antropofágica
do Bispo Sardinha", that was made in the museum, in 1959, during one of the painter’s performances.
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