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Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
和歌山県立近代美術館
和歌山城の隣に位置する、黒川紀章設計の意匠を凝らした大型美術館です。公共建築百選に選ばれた美しい建築物で、保田龍門や川口軌外などの郷土作家の作品をはじめ、佐伯祐三の油彩画13点や充実した近現代の版画コレクションを鑑賞することができます。
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The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama is a museum of modern art in the city of Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The Museum first opened as the Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Art (和歌山県立美術館) in the grounds of Wakayama Castle in 1963, before reopening on the first floor of the Wakayama Prefectural Cultural Hall in 1970; in July 1994, together with the adjacent Wakayama Prefectural Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama reopened in a new location close to the castle. The collection, from its original nucleus of 83 objects, has grown as of 2020 to some 13,000 works, including paintings by Saeki Yūzō, Suda Kunitarō, Teiji Takai and Mark Rothko.
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Notable Works
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