Museo Carmen Thyssen

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 ...

Luis Feito. Painting Itself. From the Artist’s Collection (1956-1962)

Comprising nine works by the painter Luis Feito (1929-2021) produced between 1956 and 1962, this exhibition focuses on a particularly decisive period, both in his individual creative career and in the opening up of Spanish art to a new avant-garde in which abstraction introduced a radical break w...

Casas-Rusiñol. Two modernist visions

Bourgeois, Bohemians, successful painters in Spain and Europe and foremost practitioners of Catalan modernism, Ramón Casas (1866–1932) and Santiago Rusiñol (1861–1931) are two of the great Spanish artists of the late 1800s who revitalised the painting scene of their day ...