Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
The building was renovated with the help of a grant of £650,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund and boasts six galleries on three floors, together with an art library, cafe and shop. The Estorick Collection is internationally renowned for its core of Futurist works including major paintings by the movement's main protagonists Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, Gino Severini, Ardengo Soffici and Luigi Russolo. The Estoricks were also interested in all figuarative art created between 1890 and the 1950s and other major 20th-century Italian artists represented include Amedeo Modigliani and the Metaphysical painter Giorio de Chirico. Nowhere else in Britian can works by these artists be seen in such rich profusion. Since opening the Collection has established a considerable reputation as an important venue for bringing Italian art to the British public and has achieved both public and critical acclaim for its artistic and educational programmes. Its innovative exhibition programme ranges from those devoted to Italian Futurists such as Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini to important shows addressing the social and political dimensions of artistic activity such as Under Mussolini: Decorative and Propaganda Arts of the Twenties and Thirties. Exhibitions also include work by leading Italian photographers such as Vittorio Sella and Fratelli Alinari, as well as contemporary artists developing Futurist themes such as Luca Buvoli.
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The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opened in January 1998. Comprising some 120 paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and sculptures by many of the most prominent Italian artists of the modernist era, the Collection is housed in a Georgian Grade II listed building. The gallery was named Best Museum of Fine or Applied Art in the 1999 National Heritage/NPI Museum of the Year Awards and was a Highly Commended Small Attraction in the 2003 London Tourism Awards. It has a library of over 2000 books, primarily on 20th-century Italian art, as well as a shop and cafe, making it an unrivalled resource for students of modernist movements such as Futurism and Pittura Metafiscia. 
