On February 9, 2022, Miquel Iceta, the Spanish Minister of Culture and Sport and President of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, signed the lease agreement guaranteeing the continued presence of 330 works from the Carmen Thyssen Collection at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum for fifteen years. The agreement also stipulated that a significant selection of this collection would be installed in the ground-floor galleries of the museum, formerly dedicated to twentieth-century art. This catalogue documents the new presentation, which aims to emphasize the continuity and coherence of the collection.
The natural axis of the Carmen Thyssen Collection is the evolution of landscape painting over four centuries. The tour begins (Room A) with a masterpiece by Jan Brueghel, The Garden of Eden, and the dialogue, displayed on opposite walls, between 17th-century Dutch rural genre painting and Italian urban veduta, with its pioneer Gaspar van Wittel and the great Venetians Canaletto and Guardi. The itinerary then follows the parallel development of landscape painting in Europe and North America throughout the 19th century. Room B examines North American landscape painting between Romanticism and Naturalism. European Realism (Room C) is magnificently represented by masterpieces by Corot (Solitude) and Van Gogh (Watermill at Gennep), along with other contemporary French and Dutch artists. Room D, dedicated to French Impressionism, is one of the highlights of the tour, featuring seminal works by Monet and Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley. In contrast, Room E showcases late Monet alongside his followers, the American Impressionists. A large space (Room F) is dedicated to Gauguin (centered around his most iconic work, Mata Mua) and his collaborators and followers. Neo-Impressionism and its influence on the evolution toward abstraction are explored in Room G, centered around an important painting by Kandinsky. Room H presents an overview of the early avant-garde movements, focusing on the dialogue between French Fauvism and German Expressionism, with such prominent names as Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Delaunay, Kirchner, Nolde, and Goncharova. The journey concludes (Rooms I and J) with a diverse selection of major avant-garde artists—Léger, Juan Gris, Picabia, and Delvaux, among others—and a special focus on 20th-century American artists, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Reginald Marsh, and Richard Estes.
The exhibited set represents an ideal complement to the rooms dedicated to the museum's permanent collection.
Spanish edition
Hardcover binding, semi-Dutch
Format: 20.5 x 29 cm
392 pages
Authors: various
ISBN: 9788417173920
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