@article{article_547821, title={FORMATION OF THE COLLECTION OF THE FOREIGN ARTISTS DURING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISTANBUL PAINTING AND SCULPTURE COLLECTION}, journal={The Turkish Online Journal of Design Art and Communication}, volume={9}, pages={292–302}, year={2019}, url={https://izlik.org/JA26CD96CB}, author={Üstünipek, Şeyda}, keywords={nbul Painting and Sculpture Museum,Collection,Foreign artists,Modernism,Selahattin Refik Sırmalı,Léopold-Lévy.}, abstract={<p>Following the establishment of the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum in 1937, a group of <br>important figures of the Paris School were taken to the museum collection. Selahattin Refik Sırmalı <br>Bey, who is the owner of the leading decoration store of the period, took an active role in the <br>formation of a foreign collection in the museum. It is also known that Léopold-Lévy, who served as <br>the head of painting department at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, was a contact for the <br>introduction of these paintings brought from Paris by Selahattin Refik. This initiative of Lévy, who <br>was assigned to the organization of the museum after his arrival in Istanbul, made a significant <br>contribution to the formation of foreign collections, and there is no indication that these works were <br>purchased from Selahattin Refik Sırmalı Bey in the museum records. The collection involves the <br>leading names of modern painting like Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Utrillo, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, <br>Raoul Dufy, Andre Derain, as well as Charles Despiau (sculptor), Eduard Kayser, A.Dunayer de <br>Segonzac with their prints. Foreign artists in the collection are the representatives of modern painting <br>of early 20th century. Their works in the collection were in the agendum of Turkish press of that period <br>and during the Second World War they provided a link to follow modernism in art for Turkish painters <br>who were not able to visit western art centres. <br> </p>}, number={2}