Must See Objects
Go straight in to see a selection of our most talked-about exhibits. |
Robert & Lisa Sainsbury CollectionThe Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection features work spanning 5,000 years of human creativity. Modern work by artists such as Henry Moore, John Davies, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon sits alongside art from Africa, the Pacific, the Americas, Asia, Egypt, medieval Europe and the ancient Mediterranean. The Lisa Sainsbury Collection of Modern Pots includes work from Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and Rupert Spira. |
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The University Collection of Abstract and Constructivist Art, Architecture and DesignThis collection focuses on the geometric non-objective, constructivist and concrete art movements of the 20th and 21st centuries and the related fields of architecture and design. The collection includes work by Joseph Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Sol le Witt, Francois Morellet and Kenneth Martin and furniture by Le Corbusier, Gerrit Rietveld, and Isokon. |
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The Anderson Collection of Art NouveauThe Anderson Collection of Art Nouveau comprises jewellery, furniture, glassware and metalwork featuring the fluid organic lines and whiplash curves that characterised European styles in the last years of the 19th century. The collection includes pieces from Britain, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands along with work by renowned French makers Emile Gallé, Louis Majorelle and René Lalique. |
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Conservation at the Sainsbury CentreThe Sainsbury Centre must take care of all the objects in the collections whether they are on display in our galleries, in store or on tour. |
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