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...

El Greco-Rusiñol

This small tribute the Museo Carmen Thyssen is paying to El Greco is linked to Rusiñol. It features one of the paintings that were acquired by Rusiñol, Saint Peter in Tears, along with a copy by Zuloaga, a faithful devotee of the Cretan. Another work by Rusiñol copies what wa...

Real(isms). New Figurative Trends in Spanish Art from 1918 to 1936

This exhibition takes an extensive look at a chronologically short but creatively intense period in which the first truly determined drive towards artistic renewal (and even the avant-garde) and a break with nineteenth-century art emerged in Spain in the form of a realist figurative art.

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