Collections / The Romolo Venucci Collection
The Romolo Venucci Collection
- Language: Croatian, Italian
- Legal status: Public
- Availability: Free
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- Institution: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
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The specialized Collection Romolo Venucci has been established in 1989 by a donation of painter's widow Margareta Venucci. This donation to the Modern Gallery Rijeka comprised around hundred of the of the author's works. The donation was accompanied with a purchase of yet another 120 paintings. Until today, the Collection of Venucci, one of the greatest Rijeka artists of the 20th century, has been almost completely rounded by further purchases in 1999 (180 artworks and personal documentation) and 2002 ( another 34 artworks) and comprises 339 inventory numbers with a possibility of a comprehensive survey of a creative oeuvre of one of the greatest Rijeka artists of the 20th century.