Last week near Los andzhelesskogo the Getty Center broke out the fire. Fortunately, the museum does not hurt

last week ARTinvestment.RU reported that near Los andzhelesskogo the Getty Center broke out a fire . 1600 museum visitors and 800 staff were evacuated. But, fortunately, all were, and Friday Center reopened its doors to art lovers.

The evacuation began after a fire swept hillsides of Santa Monica, peremetnulsya in the parking lot Museum. To ensure that smoke does not harmed priceless masterpieces were blocked all the ventilation system.

Getty Center opened in December 1997. Work on it was 14 years old. The museum was designed by architect Richard Meyer (Richard Meier). In the collection - paintings and graphics by European artists, to create up to the twentieth century, as well as illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, works of decorative art and works of European and American photographers of XIX - XX centuries.

Some of the products stored in the museum, includes the famous painting «Entry of Christ into Brussels» brush Belgian painter, precursor expressionism Ensora James (James Ensor), as well as canvas «Irises» Vincent van Gogh (Vincent van Gogh). The second picture was acquired by the museum in 1990, three years before it was sold for 53.9 million dollars. In addition, the Getty Center has a «Portrait since halberd» XVI century Florentine painter Jacopo Pontormo (Jacopo Pontormo), acquired in 1989 for 35.2 million dollars. This amount was a record for the market of the old masters.

Getty Museum is also famous for its garden, which was designed by American artist Robert Irwin (Robert Irwin).

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Sources: latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster , getty. edu , artinvestment.ru