About the museum
The story of the São Paulo Museum of Art
The São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) was founded in 1947 by Assis Chateaubriand and Pietro Maria Bardi. Since 1968 it has occupied Lina Bo Bardi's red-framed building on Avenida Paulista, raised on four pillars above an open plaza.
It holds the most important collection of European art in Latin America, shown on Bo Bardi's famous glass easels.
The collection
MASP's collection of about 11,000 works includes the most important group of European art in the Southern Hemisphere: Raphael, Titian, Bosch, Rembrandt, Goya, Renoir, Van Gogh, Cézanne and Modigliani.
It also holds Brazilian art from colonial times to the present, and art from Africa, Asia and the Americas.
At ArtLogia you can order 65 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 41 artists led by Amedeo Modigliani, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet.
- paintings to order
- 65
- artists
- 41
- art movements
- 14
- years covered
- 1449–1919
The building
Lina Bo Bardi's building of 1968 is a glass box held in the air by two red concrete frames, leaving a 74-metre open space beneath it. Her glass easels, which display paintings as if floating in space, were reinstalled in 2015.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
The open space beneath the building hosts a Sunday antiques market.
