On today’s episode, we speak with Roberta Cremoncini, Director of The Estorick Collection located in Islington, London. The Estorick Collection began as a private collection by Eric Estorick, an American Sociology professor and the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, and his wife Salome Dessau, who escaped Germany in 1932 and settled in England, where she studied art and became a textile designer. Roberta will explain the origins of the collection, the artists featured in the collection, and the current exhibition.

In the last few minutes of the interview, Sarah speaks with Roberta in Italian about the popularity of Modern Italian Art in Italy, and her interests in this period of art.

Keep listening until the end of the episode, to hear the amazing story of how Eric Estorick, founder of The Estorick Collection, helped save over 1000 Torah scrolls from Czechoslovakia in the 1960s.