Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane is a Art gallery founded by the Dublin City Council and located in the Charlemont House at Dublin, in Ireland. Charlemont House was in the beginning the residence of the first Count de Charlemont when it came downtown and was drawn by Sir William Chambers.

Previously known under the name of “Municipal Gallery off Modern Art”, the museum is called now officially “Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane”, often simplified in “The Hugh Lane”. The gallery was based by Hugh Lane on Harcourt Street in 1908 and is the first gallery of Modern art public known in the world.

Since its removal on Parnell Street, the museum comprises a permanent collection and shelters temporary exhibitions, most of the time, exposures of Irish contemporary artists. The studio of Francis Bacon was rebuilt in the gallery in 2001. This one closed for restorations in 2004 and reopened in 2006. It increased of an extension drawn by “Gilroy McMahon Architects” and Buro Happold, sheltering, amongst other things, a room dedicated to works of Sean Scully.

For the moment, the entirety of the collection bequeathed by Hugh Lane (and which is usually divided with the National Gallery of London) is exposed in the gallery.

External bond

Official site of Hugh Lane Gallery

Random links: