Ivan Mestrovic Gallery

Ivan Mestrovic Gallery is an artwork museum in Split, Croatia dedicated to the paintings of the 20 th-century sculptor, Ivan Mestrovic. The gallery preserves and affords to the public the most tremendous works of Mestrovic and is in itself an artwork monument. The permanent series includes works of sculpture, drawings, design, furnishings and structure. Holdings consist of authentic plaster models with the aid of the artist, as well as finished works in bronze, marble and wooden. The gallery building and grounds have been based totally on authentic plans by means of Mestrovic himself, and blanketed dwelling and operating areas, in addition to exhibition areas.

Ivan Mestrovic offered a chunk of land on the Marjan peninsula west of Split inside the 1920s, in which he supposed to construct a summer time home. The villa was constructed between 1931 and 1939 to an authentic design with the aid of Mestrovic himself, and he was involved right even though its construction. The architects Harold Bilinic and Lavoslav Horvat advanced the plans, and builder Marin Marasovi? became in fee of production.