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was not long before thematic exhibitions alternated with exhibitions which came
from abroad and showed the artistic activity of other countries and other
cultures.
"Klee, Kandinsky and Baumeister are here, what more do we
want?"
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the local press in January 1963. "German Art from 1910
to the Present Day" was followed in 1964 by an exhibition of "65
Sculptures,
61 Drawings and Watercolours of Auguste Rodin". It was the
first time the collection the collection left the Rodin museum to head to the
Mediterranean.
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Then
followed the Italian Miniatures of Renaissance, lent
in 1968 by the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the Treasures of
the Pre-Colombian Art that left in 1966 the National
Museum of Anthropology of Mexico and in 1975 the
Archeological Museum of the Central Bank of Ecuador.
The Sursock Museum then presented works of Permeke, Magritte,
Delvaux and Alechinsky (1969) simultaneously with |
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"Engravings of Canada's
Eskimos". The program of 1966 alone featured: "Ancient and
Modern Japanese Wood Engravings", "Painters from the Soviet
Azerbaijan", "Contemporary Syrian Painting", "Mosaics from
Ravenna", "Masterpieces of the Mexican Art" and
"Contemporary Spanish Art".
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In the post-war years, between 1997 and 1999, the museum
showed the contemporary fine arts of Brazil, the drawings of Italian orientalist
painters, "The month of Photography in Lebanon", the paintings
of Farouk Hosny, the Egyptian Minister of Culture, and Victor Vasarely's works.
All evidence of a never-failing eclecticism and a constant
concern to inform.
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The
Occasional Activities of the Sursock Museum should not overshadow a modern and
contemporary Lebanese art collection built up as the years went by. The
paintings and sculptures accumulated by means of acquisitions and thanks to
donations form a whole, if not wide at least representative, which includes some
main contributions to the history of |
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art. These works are shown to
the public alternately with the featured exhibitions. Despite the alterations carried out between 1970 and 1973, the building is not yet spacious enough to
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