São Paulo Art Museum

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The Museu de Arte de São Paulo, or MASP, is the most important museum of Brazil, having an extensive collection of paintings, but also of sculptures gathered since the end of the World War. Located in São Paulo, it was created by Pietro Maria Bardi and his wife, Lina Bo Bardi, and financed by donations from wealthy Brazilian people mainly from the state of São Paulo. This financing was quite colourful, sometimes amounting to sheer extorsion by Brazil's most famous press magnate, Assis 'Chatô' Chateaubriand, also nicknamed 'The King of Brazil'.

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