Even before its opening, the Museum possessed a nucleus of over one hundred sculptures donated by the heirs of the sculptor Benedetto Civiletti, the first Palermitan sculptor to achieve international fame, with award-winning works in New Orleans and Paris.
The Gallery also inaugurates a series of purchases at the Venice Biennale in 1907, including La madre dell’ucciso by the Sardinian artist Francesco Ciusa, praised by the critics of the time and an expression of the silent pain of an elderly mother, poor and barefoot, a work of social realism that shed light on the Sardinian question.
Francesco Ciusa, La madre dell’ucciso, 1907, plaster