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 ...

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...

Paradises and Landscapes in the Carmen Thyssen Collection. From Brueghel to Gauguin

This exhibition, curated by Lourdes Moreno, will present a fascinating survey of landscape painting from the 17th to the mid-20th century through major works in the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. The exhibition will analyse the depiction of nature as a poetic vision of paradise, frequently...