Dublin - Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art

Great Denmark Street in Dublin leads via Gardiner's Row into Parnell Square North, on the right hand side of which is Charlemont House (1762), by the English architect Sir William Chambers, with a porch added in 1930. It is now occupied by the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, founded in 1908, with pictures by Pierre Bonnard, Camille Corot, Edgar Degas, Juan Gris, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, William J. Leech and Jack B. Yeats. At the time of his death Hugh Lane had loaned the collection to the Tate Gallery in London, but in his will he left it to the City of Dublin. After a lengthy argument the collection was divided, the two halves rotating on a five-year period between Dublin and London.