Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo

Located in central Sao Paulo building from the late nineteenth and harbor the School of Arts and Crafts, with a rectangular, symmetrical and classic building court. The main objective of this reorganization was to adapt it to the functional needs of a gallery, where the architect was premised on turning it into a great museum to do I modify the interior layout, without altering the exterior facades.

The architect working on internal organization, creating new spaces, noting especially the large central courtyard become slightly sunken auditorium to accommodate 40 people giving .Destaca metal catwalks were installed through the courtyards to connect the galleries at the upper levels .
"The original construction was essentially maintained as structure. All the interventions proposed by the project were juxtaposed and brought out with a sense of "collage". Paulo Mendez da Rocha.

The Pinacoteca of the State maintains an expressive and varied body of Brazilian art, mainly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the more than six thousand works belonging to the institution, there are paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, tapestries, decorative art objects and a select set of objects of the colonial period in Brazil, able to provide a broad overview of Brazilian art .

In the segment relating to the nineteenth century, certainly the most consistent and important institution, the core may come into contact with the largest collection of works of Almeida Júnior. Among landscapes, portraits and indoor scenes, stand the famous Caipira works Itching I smoke, Saudade and Leitura. Still lifes of Pedro Alexandrino occupy an entire room, highlighting Cozinha na Roça, Peru Depenado and Aspargos. There are also landscapes of Antônio Parreiras and Benedito Calixto, like Baía de São Vicente; historical paintings and genre scenes of Oscar Pereira da Silva (Time of Music and Children Giotto), pictures of Bertha Worms and Henrique Bernardelli, the Maternidade fabric, Eliseu Visconti, among many others. The collection also has a special importance because of the outstanding number of Paulistas such academic artists as Castagneto, João Batista da Costa and Pedro Weingärtner.

Despite its emphasis on academic art, the collection includes various works of modernist artists such as Victor Brecheret, Tarsila do Amaral, Lasar Segall, Anita Malfatti, Candido Portinari, Di Cavalcanti, Clóvis Graciano, Francisco Rebolo and Túlio Mugnaini. Throughout the twentieth century, also it incorporated abstract works of different extractions Waldemar Cordeiro, Samson Flexor, Arcângelo Ianelli-, as well as contemporary works, such as Nuno Ramos, Paulo Monteiro and Paulo Pasta.

Collection complements a significant core of European ochocentistas paintings and French sculptures, highlighting the whole nine bronzes by Auguste Rodin (Torso da Shadow, Bacchanal, Gênio do Repouso Eternal) and other works of Aristide Maillol, Medardo Rosso, Antoine Bourdelle and Niki de Saint Phalle.

Recently, the muse received on loan the important collection Jose and Paulina Nemirovsky. DSe is one of the most important collections of Brazilian modern art, gathering raw works of some of the most outstanding artists of Brazil, as Tarsila do Amaral (five fabrics including Antropofagia), Anita Malfatti, Victor Brecheret, Lasar Segall, Ismael Nery, Flávio de Carvalho and Vicente do Rego Monteiro. The collection can be seen on permanent display at the Pinacoteca Station.