Ralli Museum Santiago
Free art museum with sculpture courtyard, showing Dali, Chagall and Bacon across eighteen galleries.
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This guide to the Ralli Museum in Santiago's Vitacura neighborhood opens with a puzzle: why a man who gave his entire art collection away for free was still fighting family lawsuits fifteen years after his death. It follows Harry Recanati, born in Thessaloniki in 1919, who spent decades building his father's bank before walking away in the 1980s to open five free museums across Uruguay, Chile, Israel and Spain, this one inaugurated in 1992. It also traces his wife Martine, the doctor who ran the day-to-day work of cataloguing and shipping the art until her death in 2005, and a court case in Buenos Aires that surfaced through an unpaid legal bill.
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