About the venue

The Estorick Collection was formed by Eric Estorick (1913-1993) and his wife Salome (1920-1989) during the 1950s. It is housed in a listed Georgian villa in Islington’s beautiful Canonbury Square which opened to the public in 1998. The Collection is known internationally for its core of Futurist works, as well as figurative painting and sculpture from the 1890s to the 1950s. Nowhere else in Britain can visitors see in such profusion paintings by Futurism’s main protagonists: Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo and Gino Severini. The Collection also includes works by Giorgio de Chirico, Amedeo Modigliani and Giorgio Morandi.