Collection
Painting
About the Collection
The Sakıp Sabancı Museum Painting Collection is both a personal collection focusing on a specific period of Turkish painting and a cultural repository that offers insight into the early development of painting as an art form in Turkey. Begun by Sakıp Sabancı in the 1970s, it serves as the historical continuation of the SSM Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection. The collection, which reveals transformations in visual representation and evolving notions of art and the artist, bears traces of the modernisation process spanning from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. Reflecting a journey that stretches from Ottoman-era painting under Western influence to the intellectually grounded approaches of the Republican generation, the SSM Painting Collection makes visible the moments of intergenerational interaction and change within this period of Turkish art history.
