Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to request the total number of works that you hold in
your permanent collections, broken down if possible by your
constituent galleries.

If an exact figure is not available, please provide instead your
estimated total, along with an explanation as to how this figure
was calculated.

Yours faithfully,

Frankie Roberto

P.S Please note that this same request has been made to all the UK
museums covered under the Freedom of Information Act, and that your
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Dear Frankie Roberto

Thank you for your enquiry regarding the number of works in the Tate
collection. Here are some recent figures:

The Collection currently consists of 66,062 works of art* by 3,075 artists
including:

4,930 paintings
1,690 sculptures
285 reliefs
333 installations
47,653 unique works on paper
13,272 prints on paper
329 blocks for printing
*Several works at Tate are part of the fabric of the buildings and do not
appear in the Collection database.

This information is on the Tate website at
[1]http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/about.... You should also be aware
that works are added to the Collection on a regular basis. The annual Tate
Reports list all the acquisitions for the year in question
[2]http://www.tate.org.uk/about/tatereport/

The Tate collection is one collection - the works displayed in the
separate galleries have different emphases but there is no division within
the Collection itself.

I hope this will help you with your research, and thank you again for your
interest in Tate.

Best wishes

Richard Gray

 
Richard Gray
Information Assistant
Tate Britain
+44(0) 20 7887 8888 option 2
 
[3]www.tate.org.uk
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Dear Richard Gray,

Many thanks for your response.

Yours sincerely,

Frankie Roberto