Mexico has a long background in accumulating art a minimum of because the 20th Century. Álvar as well as Carmen Carrillo Gil in addition to Rufino Tamayo were will certainly of one of the most essential art enthusiasts who later contributed their private collections to public institutions to give birth to their equivalent museums: the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil Art Gallery and the Museo Tamayo. However exactly how have the most important art collections in Mexico been developed?
1. Álvar and Carmen Carrillo Gil Collection
Álvar Carrillo Gil (July 6, 1898 – – October 5, 1974), along with his partner Carmen Tejero, started to put together in 1938 among one of the most important collections of contemporary art in Mexico that includes one of the most considerable collection of easel works, engravings as well as illustrations by José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera as well as David Alfaro Siqueiros. The collection additionally includes jobs by Gunther Gerzso, Wolfang Paalen, Luis Nishizawa, as well as a lot of Japanese prints from the 17th to 20th centuries, visuals jobs by European avant-garde musicians, in addition to his own work. This need to share his collection and also share Mexican art initially emerged with a collection of global exhibits held in between 1947 and 1968. Together with Fernando Gamboa, his terrific close friend as well as collaborator, and also via the INBA (National Institute of Fine Arts as well as Literary Works), Carrillo Gil took his collection to Paris, Stockholm, London, Lima, Tokyo, Osaka, Brussels, New York City, Montreal, Warsaw, Moscow and San Antonio. A substantial variety of items from his collection belonged to the selection that took a trip to the XXV Venice Biennale (1949) in which Mexico won the International Reward.
Nowadays the collection is protected in the Museo de Arte Álvar as well as Carillo Gil in Mexico City.