{"id":171060,"date":"2025-12-02T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171060\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:19:08","slug":"a-museum-devoted-to-works-from-the-sonnabend-collection-opens-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171060\/","title":{"rendered":"A Museum Devoted to Works from the Sonnabend Collection Opens in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA museum dedicated to works from art dealer Ileana Sonnabend<\/a>\u2019s legendary collection opened this past weekend in the Renaissance city of Mantua, Italy, thanks to a partnership with the Sonnabend Foundation. The nearly 100 artworks on display, valued at $270 million, include masterpieces by Pop artists, Arte Povera<\/a> sculptors, and contemporary artists.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith her second husband Michael Sonnabend, Ileana Sonnabend (1914\u20132007) opened Sonnabend Gallery<\/a> in 1962 in Paris. They closed it in 1968 and opened a new gallery in New York in 1971. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Sonnabend galleries were instrumental in introducing European avant-garde art to American audiences and American Pop Art<\/a> to Europe.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAlong the way, the couple built an unrivaled collection of postwar art, including pieces by Jasper Johns<\/a> and Robert Rauschenberg<\/a>, Pop paintings by Roy Lichtenstein<\/a> and Andy Warhol<\/a>, Minimalist works by Donald Judd, installations by Arte Povera artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto, and conceptual photography by Bernd and Hilla Becher and Bruce Nauman. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2008, following Ileana Sonnabend\u2019s death, her adopted son Antonio Homen and her daughter Nina Sundell, heirs to the collection, sold off a large portion of it to cover estate taxes. At the time, the value of the estate\u2019s assets was estimated to be as high as $1 billion, with more than half of that due in taxes.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow a portion of the collection fills 11 galleries in the Palazzo della Ragione, a 13th-century building once used as a town hall. The project, Sonnabend Collection Mantova, was produced by the Municipality of Mantua, the Sonnabend Collection Foundation, and Marsilio Arte.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Sonnabend Foundation Collection has loaned the pieces to the municipality for six years with the option to renew the loan for another six, explained Mayor Mattia Palazzi during a press conference. However, the mayor stressed his hope \u201cfor the museum in Mantua to become a permanent home\u201d for the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A museum dedicated to works from art dealer Ileana Sonnabend\u2019s legendary collection opened this past weekend in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[17389,94560,307,304,305,306,308,93,61,94561,60,94562,94563,93097,56447,94564,94565],"class_list":["post-171060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-andy-warhol","tag-arte-povera","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ileana-sonnabend","tag-ireland","tag-jasper-johns","tag-michelangelo-pistoletto","tag-pop-art","tag-robert-rauschenberg","tag-roy-lichtenstein","tag-sonnabend-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}