Foundation: 1992, October 8 th (the works about documentation ordering and organization started in 1989)
Director: Anty Pansera
Curator: Mariateresa Chirico
Adress: 20121 Milan, Via Volta 12
Telephon: 0039-02-29000845
Mail: archivioandreoni@fastewebnet.it

Purpose of the Archives: “research, study, collection and promotion, divulgation of archives and bibliographic documents which are all related to Andreoni’s artistic activity and to the milanese criticism of his work” (excerpt from the Statute).
Since 1989 the Archives collected all data and available informations about Cesare Andreoni artistic activity; so it has reconstructed his production, which is kept for the most part in private collections and galleries, in addition to public collections. It promoted the painter’s knowledge as well, with a very important exhibition at Palazzo Reale in Milan: Cesare Andreoni e il Futurismo a Milano tra le due guerre (“Cesare Andreoni and the Futurism in Milan between the two world wars”) (29 January-28 March 1993); it realized the catalogue (with essays by C. Salaris, G. Lista, A. Pansera, A. Bassi, E. Crispolti, L. Caramel, E. Godoli, apparatus criticus by Mt. Chirico, R. C. Piccoli). It published a monograph too, which introduces the whole production of the artist: Cesare Andreoni artista artigiano protodesigner, Bolis editore, Bergamo 1992 (with essays by E. Crispolti, R. Bossaglia, R. Mangili, C. De Carli, A. Negri, E. Pontiggia, M. Meneguzzo, A. Pansera, P.Pallottino, C. Salaris, E. Godoli; apparatus criticus by Mt. Chirico and A. Bassi).

Corpus and cataloguing: The cataloguing of the works is realized on paper and it is completed with photos. It is constituted by 2.530 works, including paintings, drawings, graphics and objects (about 60) along with the documentation of Andreoni’s cooperation with the magazine “L’uomo di Pietra” (about a hundred sketches).
The data are not complete for all works because in several cases – about 150 – the existence of the paintings has been witnessed only by photos, taken by the artist himself, or by catalogues of exhibitions; that means that until now it has not been possible to find and see the original works.
In case of other works, as about 80 advertisings and about 150 illustrationsfor newspapers and magazines, only prints but no preparatory sketches are kwnown.
The Archives keeps a good amount of the artist’s production, the clippings, some papers written by Andreoni, some personal documents and objects, photographs of his family, some letters, as well as the photocopies of the documentation which allowed the reconstruction of Andreoni’s life.