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Jose Berardo

Jose Berardo collected modern and contemporary art from the 1980s onward, covering movements from surrealism and pop art to minimalism and conceptual art. Part of the collection was shown at the Museu Colecao Berardo in Lisbon's Centro Cultural de Belem from 2007. That museum closed in 2022 and was replaced in January 2023 by the Contemporary Art Museum at the same centre, which has included parts of the collection.

Artists named in the collection

Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Nan Goldin, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dali, Alexander Calder, Lee Krasner, Bridget Riley, Richard Serra

On record

  • Under a 2006 agreement with the Portuguese state, works went on long-term loan to the Centro Cultural de Belem.
  • Three banks sued to recover debts of almost 1 billion euros, seeking to seize 75 percent of the collection, which had been pledged as collateral. Proceedings began in 2017.
  • Wikipedia reports that the Portuguese state seized the collection in 2019 after the loans went unpaid, while The Art Newspaper relayed that report without independent confirmation.

Questions

What does Jose Berardo collect?Jose Berardo collected modern and contemporary art from the 1980s onward, covering movements from surrealism and pop art to minimalism and conceptual art. Part of the collection was shown at the Museu Colecao Berardo in Lisbon's Centro Cultural de Belem from 2007. That museum closed in 2022 and was replaced in January 2023 by the Contemporary Art Museum at the same centre, which has included parts of the collection.

Which artists are in the Jose Berardo collection?Cited sources name works by Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Nan Goldin, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dali.

Sources

  1. Berardo museum stays open in Lisbon despite uncertainty over future of Portuguese Saatchi's collection, The Art Newspaper, 2019
  2. Berardo Collection Museum, Wikipedia
  3. Jose Berardo, Wikipedia

Last verified 2026-10-31.

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