The Richard Demarco Archive

The Museum of Art in Łódź, central Poland, has acquired part of the vast collection and archive assembled by veteran Scottish arts impresario Richard Demarco.

Three lorries carrying the first batch of the collection—including more than 1,300 artworks and 865 boxes of photographs, posters, films, catalogues, correspondence and curatorial notes—have arrived in the city, museum officials said.

Daniel Muzyczuk, director of the Museum of Art in Łódź, described Demarco as one of the most important figures on the European arts scene of the past seven decades.

"He is not only a curator and patron of the arts but, above all, a builder of cultural bridges, who has spared no effort in creating avenues for exchange between East and West, as well as between northern and southern Europe," Muzyczuk said of Demarco.

Extract from an article in https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7791/Artykul/3622132,polish-art-museum%C2%A0acquires-part-of-richard-demarco’s-collection