J. M. W. Turner paintings in São Paulo

São Paulo's São Paulo Museum of Art holds 1 work by J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) — the city's entire known holding of this artist in a single institution.

Turner pushed painting towards abstraction a century before modernism, dissolving landscapes into light and atmosphere. His canvases must be seen in person: they are large, their surfaces complex, and the experience of standing before a late Turner — light seeming to emanate from the canvas itself — has no equivalent.