Morohashi Museum of Modern Art

Art museum in Japan

Morohashi Museum of Modern Art

諸橋近代美術館

General information
Address| 1093-23 Aza-Kengamine, Ōaza-Hibara
Town or city| Kitashiobara, Fukushima Prefecture
Country| Japan
Coordinates| 37°39′13″N 140°5′47″E﻿ / ﻿37.65361°N 140.09639°E﻿ / 37.65361; 140.09639
Opened| 3 June 1999
Technical details
Floor area| 2000 m2
Website
homepage

The Morohashi Museum of Modern Art (諸橋近代美術館, Morohashi Kindai Bijutsukan) is an art museum that opened in Kitashiobara, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, in 1999. It is situated within Bandai-Asahi National Park, near Goshiki-numa, and with views of Mount Bandai. The permanent collection includes over three hundred forty pieces by Salvador Dalí, which makes it the third largest Dalí Museum in the world and the sole Dalí Museum in Asia. It also owns works by other painters, like Sisley, Cézanne, Renoir, Matisse and Picasso.[1][2][3]

## History and collection

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The museum was created based on the art collection of the Japanese entrepreneur Teizo Morohashi, the founder of the sports and apparel retailer XEBIO Corporation, whose headquarters is in Kōriyama. He was a passionate admirer of the work of Salvador Dalí and surrealism in general, and since 1991, he started purchasing a wide range of works by the artist, along other paintings by artists such as Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso. He decided to create a museum to host his art collection, whose construction began in 1997, and was already completed the following year. In 1999, the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art opened to the public.[4] The current director, Eiji Morohashi, is Teizo's eldest son. It is a registered museum facility.

The museum main focus is the artwork of Spanish painter Salvador Dalí, and because of that the URL of its official website is "Dali.jp". The museum has indeed an extensive collection of works by Dalí, with approximately 340 pieces, including paintings, sculptures and prints. It is the third largest Dalí museum in the world, after the Salvador Dalí Museum, in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the Dalí Theatre and Museum, in Figueres, Spain. The museum also has an important collection of other contemporary Western painters. The artworks were bought mostly from auction houses such as Christie's and Sotheby's.

The paintings by Dalí that are part of the museum's collection include: Cabaret Scene, The Battle of Tetouan, The Three Sphinxes of Bikini, Portrait of Gala and the Lobster, An Allegory of the Sunset Atmosphere, The Statue of Olympian Zeus, Landscape with Butterflies and Grapes, The Tower of Time with Butterflies, Portrait of Mrs. Jack Warner, Portrait of Ann Woodward, Girls in a Garden, among many others.[5]

The sculptures include Image of the Universe, Profile of Time, The Persistence of Memory, The Snail and the Angel, Vision of an Angel, Woman with a Rose Head, Tribute to Newton, Alice in Wonderland, Cabinet in the Shape of an Anthropomorphic Body, Swan-Elephant, and Venus with Drawers.[6][7]

## Other painters

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The museum collection also includes around 30 paintings from other contemporary painters, specially since impressionism, such as Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Utrillo, Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, and Tsuguharu Foujita.[8][9]

## References

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1. ^ "Introduction to the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art". Morohashi Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2012.
2. ^ Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima Travel
3. ^ Salvador Dali Art Museum in Stunning Japanese National Park, Fukushima Travel
4. ^ Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Japan Travel
5. ^ Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí, Collections index, Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation
6. ^ "Introduction to the Morohashi Museum of Modern Art". Morohashi Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2012.
7. ^ Morohashi Museum, Japan Travel
8. ^ Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Fukushima Travel
9. ^ Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, Japan Travel

## External links

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* (in Japanese) Morohashi Museum of Modern Art

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Salvador Dalí

List of works

Paintings|

* List of works
* Landscape Near Figueras (1910)
* Vilabertran (1913)
* Cabaret Scene (1922)
* Portrait of My Father (1925)
* Young Woman at a Window (1925)
* The Basket of Bread (1926)
* Apparatus and Hand (1927)
* The Lugubrious Game (1929)
* The First Days of Spring (1929)
* The Accommodations of Desire (1929)
* The Great Masturbator (1929)
* The Invisible Man (1929–1932)
* The Persistence of Memory (1931)
* The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (1934)
* Morphological Echo (1934–1936)
* A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano (1936)
* Couple with Their Heads Full of Clouds (1936, 1937)
* Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) (1936)
* The Burning Giraffe (1937)
* Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937)
* Swans Reflecting Elephants (1937)
* Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)
* The Enigma of Hitler (1939)
* Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time (1939)
* The Face of War (1940)
* Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (1940)
* Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man (1943)
* Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening (1944)
* Basket of Bread (1945)
* The Apotheosis of Homer (1945)
* The Temptation of St. Anthony (1946)
* The Elephants (1948)
* Cartel de Don Juan Tenorio (1949)
* Leda Atomica (1949)
* The Madonna of Port Lligat (1949)
* Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951)
* Galatea of the Spheres (1952)
* The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1952–1954)
* The Colossus of Rhodes (1954)
* Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) (1954)
* Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954)
* The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955)
* Living Still Life (1956)
* The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus (1958–59)
* The Ecumenical Council (1959–60)
* Galacidalacidesoxyribonucleicacid (1963)
* La Gare de Perpignan (1965)
* Tuna Fishing (1966–67)
* The Hallucinogenic Toreador (1968–1970)
* La Toile Daligram (1972)
* Dalí Seen from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected by Six Real Mirrors (1972–1973)
* Lincoln in Dalivision (1977)
* The Swallow's Tail (1983)

Painting series|

* The Seven Lively Arts (1944; 1956)

Other artworks|

* Lobster Telephone (1936)
* Lobster dress (1937)
* Mae West Lips Sofa (1937)
* Champagne Standard Lamps (1938)
* Rainy Taxi (1938)
* A Logician Devil (1951)
* Nieuw Amsterdam (1974)
* Salvador Dali's Tarot (1985)

Writings|

* Giraffes on Horseback Salad (1937)
* The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942)
* Dali's Mustache (1954) (with Philippe Halsman)
* Être Dieu (1985)

Films|

* Un Chien Andalou (1929)
* L'Age d'Or (1930)
* Spellbound (1945, dream sequence)
* Destino (1946, completed 2003)

Set design
and costumes|

* Mariana Pineda (1927 production)

Museums|

* Dalí Theatre and Museum (Dalí·Jewels)
* Gala Dalí Castle House-Museum
* Salvador Dalí House Museum
* Salvador Dalí Museum
* Dalí Paris
* Dalí Universe
* Morohashi Museum of Modern Art

Related|

* Gala Dalí (wife)
* Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation
* Paranoiac-critical method
* Salvador Dalí and dance
* Chupa Chups
* Dalí Atomicus (1948 photograph)
* Salvador Dalí (1966 film)
* The Death of Salvador Dali (2005 film)
* Little Ashes (2008 film)
* Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
* Dalíland (2022 film)
* Daaaaaalí! (2023 film)
* "Salvador Dalí" (song)
* 2919 Dali (asteroid)
* Dali crater
* Portlligat (village)
* Salvador Dalí Desert
* Dalí cross

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* United States
* Japan

People|

* ISIL: JP-2000739

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