Art Modern Institute Museum of Valencia
Modern art collection built around one sculptor, purchased outright before the museum even opened.
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This guide to the Institut Valencia d'Art Modern in Valencia traces a gamble made three years before the museum even opened, when the regional government bought out the entire collection of sculptor Julio Gonzalez, a metalworker's son who once taught Pablo Picasso to weld iron and died in obscure exile in France. It follows how that purchase turned a nearly forgotten artist into the museum's founding identity and gave the building his name. Look for the Gonzalez sculptures and copper plates that anchor the galleries you walk through today.
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