The Dream Museum: The Osaka Collections is a collaborative project between three facilities: The Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, and Suntory Museum. It is a special exhibition that is designed to introduce the charms of invaluable and outstanding works from each museum's collection which we do not normally have an opportunity to show.
Of special mention is the excellent collection of The Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, whose opening is much anticipated. Among the featured works from the museum's collection are a nude by Amedeo Modigliani, paintings by Surrealist masters such as René Magritte and Salvador Dali, a masterpiece by the Cubist sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon, a black painting by one of the U.S.'s most representative artists, Frank Stella, and a figurative work by the German painter Gerhard Richter, who has received much attention in recent years. Not only is this collection of work historically significant, it is truly spectacular.
The National Museum of Art, Osaka also boasts a tremendous collection of great works, ranging from a late painting by Paul Cézanne, an extremely important landscape from Pablo Picasso's Cubist period, work by the Surrealist great Max Ernst, and the deeply poetic boxes of Joseph Cornell, to a masterpiece by the American painter Barnett Newman, whose work is seldom found in Japanese collections, and rare early works by the prominent German painters Georg Baselitz and Sigmar Polke.
While serving as a showcase for the special features of these museums' collections, the event would not be complete without works from the Suntory Museum by Paul Klee and Giorgio Morandi. Together, the collections form an unparalleled exhibition of 20th-century art.