Galleria d'arte contemporanea Osvaldo Licini
Civic gallery of contemporary art in the former convent of Sant’Agostino in Ascoli Piceno, with the collection of paintings and drawings by Osvaldo Licini.
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About the museum
The gallery was founded in the early 1960s on the initiative of the painter Ernesto Ercolani, director of the Pinacoteca civica, with a collection limited to prints: the Civica Galleria d’Arte Grafica Moderna, opened on 18 October 1964 in the 16th-century Palazzo Malaspina. In 1977 it became the Civica Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, open to all forms of art.
In the late 1990s, alongside paintings by Fontana, Matta, Hartung, Morandi, De Pisis and Severini, forty paintings and thirty-eight drawings by Osvaldo Licini from the collection of Caterina Celi Hellstrom entered the holdings. In 1999 the gallery moved to the former convent of Sant’Agostino and was named after the master from Monte Vidon Corrado, whose entire creative path, from figuration to abstraction, can be followed.
In 2007 the collection was enriched with fifty preparatory drawings made by Tullio Pericoli in 1988 for the decoration of the Sala Garzanti in Milan, lent on deposit by the Fondazione Carisap.
Highlights
- Forty paintings and thirty-eight drawings by Osvaldo Licini
- Works by Fontana, Matta, Hartung, Morandi, De Pisis and Severini
- Fifty preparatory drawings by Tullio Pericoli for the Sala Garzanti
- Seat in the former convent of Sant’Agostino
Permanent exhibition
- Collezione permanente di arte contemporanea – Paintings and drawings by Osvaldo Licini, twentieth-century works by Italian and international artists, and the preparatory drawings by Tullio Pericoli.
- Founded
- 1964
- Operated by
- Comune di Ascoli Piceno – Musei Civici
- Visitors per year
- approx. 12,000
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €4 |
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| Reduced | €2 |
The Civic Museums of Ascoli Piceno take part in 18app and the Carta del Docente (teacher card).
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| Good to know | Information and tickets from the Infopoint of the Civic Museums, Piazza Arringo 7. |
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