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The Collection of Prints and Drawings
The Collection of Sculptures
The collection of prints represents a systematic insight into the
Serbian and Yugoslav graphic art in the period from 1900 until today. The
collection consists of 1880 graphic sheets, which help us scrutinize various
processes characteristic of the development of this art in the 20th century,
from the surpassing of the notion of print as a “noble craft”, to the emergence
of the “combined technique”, to the change of the status of graphic imprint due
to the emergence of the digital reproduction techniques. The most distinctive
part of the collection represents the print production published in avant-garde
magazines (Zenit, Dada Tank, Ut) during the 1920s (Mihailo Petrov, Avgust
Černigoj), as well as political prints between two world wars, which expresses
progressive socio-political attitudes and stands for one of the leading art
forms of that period (Sergije Glumac, Marijan Detoni, Krsto Hegedušić, Đorđe
Andrejević-Kun, Pivo Karamatijević and others). As for the second half of the
20th century, the collection observes the most relevant tendencies (graphic of
the “Belgrade Circle”, Neoconstructivism) and individual opuses of Marko
Krsmanović, Bogdan Kršić, Miroslav Šutej and others.
The collection of drawings is comprised of 1345 works of Serbian
and Yugoslav artists from the beginning of the 20th century up until today. The
collection is given a special significance by the visual experimentation of
Belgrade surrealists (drawings, collages, assemblages, decalcomania, cadavre
exquis), the examples of constructivist art (A. Černigoj, E. Stepančič), as
well as the drawings by Sava Šumanović, Petar Dobrović, Ivan Radović i Dušan
Janković. The most prominent works from the second half of the 20th century
come from artists who paid special attention to drawing as a media per se –
Ivan Tabaković, Leonid Šejka, Dado Đurić, Vladimir Veličković, Dragan Lubarda,
Radomir Reljić, Bora Iljovski, Dušan Otašević, Stojan Ćelić.
The collection of foreign prints is comprised of 323 works of art. The creation
of this collection was initiated by the graphic works of Jacques Villon and
Albert Gleizes, which the Museum obtained as a gift from the Paris Museum of
Modern Art in 1965 on the occasion of the opening of the Museum of Contemporary
Art. The collection has further been complemented through the cooperation with
galleries, publishing houses, graphic studios and manifestations. The
collection features sheets and drawings by many famous 20th century artists:
Joan Miro, Antoni Tapies, Hans Hartung, Adolph Gotlieb, Robert Rauschenberg,
Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Richard Hamilton, Max Bill,
Josef Albers, Lucio Fontana, Victor Vasarely, David Hockney, Eduardo Paolozzi,
Piero Dorazio, Michelangelo Pistoleto, Frank Stella and others.
