Founder of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro

Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt

A Life Dedicated to Art and Freedom

Alberto Giacometti, Femme debout

Modern Art Masters

Leading Artists of the Second Half of the 20th Century

Niomar, Patron of Brazilian and South American Artists

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SVP | President & Managing Director, Rio de Janeiro

Katia Mindlin Leite Barbosa

Vice President France, Senior Director, Senior International Specialist

Stefano Moreni

Vice President France, Co-head of Modern & Contemporary Art Department, Senior Director, Senior Specialist

Aurélie Vandevoorde

Vice President France, Co-head of Modern & Contemporary Art Department, International Senior Specialist

Thomas Bompard

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Constance Bertrand

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Joséphine Viat

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Polina Kozlova

Cataloguer, Contemporary Art

Damiane Pestre

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A key figure in Brazilian avant-garde, Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt dedicated her life to defending modern art and freedom of expression. An engaged journalist, enlightened collector, and founder of the Museum of Modern Art of Rio (MAM), she succeeded in imposing her audacious vision despite the political and cultural resistance inherited from the troubled period of the Brazilian military dictatorship that followed the 1964 coup.

Collection Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt | La Liberté pour dogme