The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya is organising the fourth edition of a conference dedicated to collecting and its main names, personalities who, with their hobby, have contributed to the formation of the museum's collection and the of other heritage institutions. The meeting is an opportunity to reassess a meritorious task developed in the historical context of the formation process of Catalan public collections.

Scientific coordination: Bonaventura Bassegoda (UAB) and Francesc Quílez (Museu Nacional) 

Programme

10.00 -10.15am - Presentation. Pepe Serra. Director of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

10.15-10.45am -  Antoni Amatller Costa, collector. Santi Alcolea. Director of the Fundació Institut Amatller d’Art Hispànic

10.45-11.15am - Josep Maria Puchades Benito (1913-1982): cartographer, publisher and collector. Carme Montaner and Noelia Ramos. Cartoteca de Catalunya.  Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya

11.15-11.45am – Coffee break

11.45-12.15pm - Friend and mastermind of Picasso: Jaume/Jacobus Sabartés, collector of a unique artist. Eduard Vallès. Conservator of Modern Art of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans

12.15-12.45pm - The postcard collection of Enrique Matas-Ramis at the Joaquim Folch i Torres Library. Yolanda Ruiz. Librarian. Joaquim Folch i Torres Library of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

12.45-1.15pm - Carles G. Vidiella, musician and collector. Sebastià Sánchez Sauleda. Art historian

 1.15-2.00pm - Debate

2.00-4.00pm - Lunch

4.00-4.30pm - The emotional and humanistic collecting by Manuel Maria Bosch i Puig. Notes for a trajectory. Silvia Tena. Head Registrar of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya

4.30-5.00pm - A unique collection at the Biblioteca de Catalunya: the classical mythology library of Frederic Travé and Alfonso (1918-1982). Roser Insense Brufau. Librarian of the Graphics Unit of the Biblioteca de Catalunya and Xavier Soler Ávila. Art historian

5.00pm - Closing

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