Museum of Contemporary Art – MAC/CCB
Contemporary art museum housing a seized private collection of Picasso, Warhol, and Bacon.
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This guide to MAC/CCB in Lisbon follows José Berardo, a boy from Madeira who left school at thirteen, sailed to South Africa at eighteen, and built a mining fortune buying up gold mines other companies had written off. Back in Portugal, that fortune turned into an art collection of over eight hundred works, Picasso and Warhol and Bacon and Dalí among them, valued by Christie's at over three hundred million euros. In the following years he borrowed close to a billion euros from three Portuguese banks, with the paintings themselves pledged as the collateral.
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