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Colección Amalita
Argentina’s wealthiest woman presents six centuries of art
![Tácticas Luminosas (Illuminating Tactics), temporary exhibition, Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/22943/2023-05-09_12-56-05_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg?v=497262065 640w, /site/assets/files/22943/2023-05-09_12-56-05_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg?v=2100290364 1024w)
Colección Amalita found its public home in 2008 parallel to the harbour of the heavily restored and now very trendy area of Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires. The collection and its whopping, light-filled venue originated as an initiative of the late Amalia de Fortabat, who existed as Argentina’s wealthiest woman.
Colección Amalita lies in the middle of Puerto Madero, the trendy quarter of the Argentine capital. Until the end of the 1990s, this neighborhood was still a no-go area of rundown houses ringing the harbor. It’s been heavily restored and added to over the past few years by world-class architects like Sir Norman Foster, Philippe Starck, and Santiago Calatrava.
The architect of the Colección Fortabat, which opened in fall 2008, is the Uruguay-born New Yorker Rafael Viñoly. He built a modern, light-filled house for the art collection of Argentina’s wealthiest woman: 1 000 works ranging from Pieter Bruegel to Andy Warhol, who made a portrait of her in 1980. The socially critical artist Antonio Berni has a gallery all to himself.
Colección Amalita is featured in the BMW ART GUIDE by INDEPENDENT COLLECTORS.
For more information on the Colección Amalita.
![J. M. WILLIAM TURNER, Juliet and her Nurse, 1836. Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-33-03_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-33-03_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![Explorando la Colección (Exploring the Collection), temporary exhibition, Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-33-13_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-33-13_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![Tácticas Luminosas (Illuminating Tactics), temporary exhibition, Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-33-23_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-33-23_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![Tácticas Luminosas (Illuminating Tactics), temporary exhibition, Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-33-30_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-33-30_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![Tácticas Luminosas (Illuminating Tactics), temporary exhibition, Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-33-41_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-33-41_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![MARC CHAGALL, Bouquet de printemps (Spring Bouquet), c. 1966-67 q. Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-34-12_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-34-12_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![Tácticas Luminosas (Illuminating Tactics), temporary exhibition, Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-34-14_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-34-14_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![Explorando la Colección (Exploring the Collection), temporary exhibition, Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-34-34_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-34-34_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![Permanent Collection, Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-34-45_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-34-45_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat. Photo: Bernardo Galmarini/Alamy Stock Photo](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-34-54_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-34-54_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![Permanent Collection, Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-36-01_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-36-01_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![EGYPTIAN LION RELIEF, 30th dynasty, beginning of the Ptolemaic period, c. 380-200 B.C. Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-36-11_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-36-11_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![PIETER BRUEGHEL II, The Census of Bethlehem, n/d. Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-36-22_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-36-22_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
![PRILIDIANO PUEYRREDÓN, Los capataces (The Overseers), n/d. Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat](/site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-36-32_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.640x0.jpg 640w, /site/assets/files/23467/2023-05-30_16-36-32_coleccion-de-arte-amalia-lacroze-de-fortabat_bmw_art_guide_by_independent_collectors.jpg 1024w)
All images courtesy of Colección Amalita.