Partition on LHS.The presence of international artists has to do mainly with contacts between these and several Portuguese artists, and the programming on international art, developed by the Calouste Gulbenkian from the date of its creation in 1956. Equally important was the presence of an important collection of works of British art, with a historical set of works acquired in a systematic way, the United Kingdom between 1959 and 1964, and the presence of more recent pieces by British artists of international renown.
