Temporary Exhibition
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From February 21 to June 07, 2020
Toulouse-Lautrec and the circus
In 1899, during a short period of convalescence in a sanatorium in Neuilly, on the outskirts of Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864−1901), the great portraitist of fin-de-siècle Parisian bohemia, produced a series of 39 drawings on one of his favourite themes: circus performances like those of the city’s Cirque Fernando...
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From March 24 to September 13, 2020
Masks. Metamorphosis of Modern Identity
This exhibition reflects on the mask as a means of transforming how the human figure is represented in modern art. Originally having a traditional festive use associated with the carnival and fancy dress, which continued to be predominant in commedia dell’arte characters, masks began to be associated with the grotesque and death in the...
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Arabian Fantasy. Orientalist Painting in Spain (1860–1900)
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European colonial expansion in northern Africa in the 1800s encouraged many artists, especially French and Spanish, to travel to Morocco, Al... -
Fortuny the printmaker
Following in the wake of other great painters and printmakers such as Rembrandt and Goya, Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838−1874), an unquestionable master of Spanish nineteenth-century painting, put his virtuosic skills to exploring the expressive possibilities of printmaking – chiefly etc...
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Max Ernst: natural history
A key figure in the development of art in the 20th century, the German painter, sculptor and graphic artist Max Ernst (Brühl, 1891−Paris, 1976) set out to visualise a unique and fascinating dream world in his works. The Natural History (Histoire naturelle) series, one of his most famous S...