Museo Carmen Thyssen

Avant-garde drawings [1910-1945]

An essential device in artistic training and painters’ and sculptors’ creative processes, in the twentieth century drawing came to be viewed as a form of artistic expression in its own right, independent of academic practices or preparatory sketches. Artists of various disciplines, th...

Latent Modernity

Through more than sixty paintings, mostly from the Telefónica Collection, this exhibition tells the story of an episode in Spanish art that was largely shaped by the historical period to which it belongs. The hopes aroused by the signs of an emerging avant-garde before the Civil War (1936ꟷ...

Zurbarán. Saints

During the Baroque period in Spain the Catholic reaction to the Protestant Reformation gave rise to an art based on realistic and highly dramatic images whose purpose was to inspire devotion through highly emotionally charged depictions of saintliness. This context, in what was known as the Spani...