Museo Carmen Thyssen

Sorolla in Jávea

Joaquín Sorolla (1863−1923) discovered Jávea in the autumn of 1896. The scenery of the place proved to be quite a revelation for the painter, then thirty-three. Sorolla was familiar with the landscapes of the beaches of his native Valencia, where he had spent hours on end maki...

Reflections of Pop

Reflections of Pop surveys the reception of the international pop movement in Spain during the 1960s and 1970s through four of the individual artists and teams whose work illustrates the influence of this trend most clearly and continuously: Luis Gordillo, Eduardo Arroyo, Equipo Crónica an...

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 ...