Temporary Exhibition
Current
From October 12, 2019 to March 01, 2020
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, Algeria and Tunisia. Their depictions of thes...
Current
From October 29, 2019 to February 02, 2020
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 etching and aquatint – in 30 or so compo...
Forthcoming
From February 21 to June 07, 2020
Toulouse-Lautrec y el circo
Durante una breve estancia en un sanatorio, en 1899, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) realiza treinta y nueve dibujos sobre el circo, tema de algunas de sus mejores pinturas en los años anteriores y que entonces rememora, componiendo una serie de imágenes en las que acróbatas, payasos y domadores ensayan y ejecutan sus números ante ...
Forthcoming
From March 23 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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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...
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Perversity. Femmes Fatales in Modern Art (1880–1950)
From the eternal feminine to the new woman, this exhibition surveys more than half a century of images featuring women in a period – from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s – when their representation in art underwent a paradigm shift as a reflection of the social situation of the time. The...
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Modern and seductive. Women in the ABC Collection (1900−1936)
During the first decades of the twentieth century, the illustrations in the weekly magazine Blanco y Negro and the daily newspaper ABC – two of the periodic publications with the largest circulation at the time – conveyed the image of a new, active and modern woman. In a society in the m...