Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist woman at the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza in Madrid

MADRID.- From 15 November and for the first time in Spain, the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza is presenting a retrospective exhibition on the work of the female Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot. Through an important agreement reached with the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, more than 30 works from that collection will be shown alongside one loaned from the Fondatión Pierre Gianadda in Martigny (Switzerland) and others from the Thyssen collections. As a result, visitors will be able to appreciate Morisot’s elegant and luminous style, expressed in [...]

Tate Britain announces Picasso and Modern British Art exhibition for February 2012

LONDON.- In February 2012 Tate Britain will stage the first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain. Picasso and Modern British Art will examine Picasso’s evolving critical reputation here and British artists’ responses to his work. The exhibition will explore Picasso’s rise in Britain as a figure of both controversy and celebrity, tracing the ways in which his work was exhibited and collected here during his lifetime, and demonstrating that the British engagement with Picasso and his art was much deeper [...]

Stadel Museum discovers an important work by French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérome

FRANKFURT.- In the context of examining the Städel’s nineteenth-century holdings in view of the imminent reopening or new presentation of the museum’s collections respectively, an important painting by the French academic painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) has been discovered. The picture shows Saint Jerome reclining against a lion, his traditional attribute. After its comprehensive restoration, the painting will be on display for the first time as part of the Städel’s new permanent “Modern Art” (1800-1945) presentation. The work was last exhibited in London in [...]

Madrid’s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Presents an Exhibition Devoted to Jean-Léon Gérome

MADRID.- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid presents Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), on view from 15 February through 22 May 2011. An ambitious exhibition jointly organised with the Musée d’Orsay, the Réunion des musées nationaux and J. Paul Getty Museum. It is the first major monographic exhibition to be devoted to this French painter and sculptor since the celebrated one held in the United States thirty years ago, and the first to be devoted to the artist in Spain. The carefully selected group of oil [...]

Extensive Survey of Impressionist Gardens Opens at Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza

MADRID.- This autumn the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza and Caja Madrid are presenting the exhibition Impressionist Gardens, an extensive survey of the theme of gardens in painting from the mid‐ 19th century to the early 20th century. This is a major project undertaken in collaboration with the National Gallery of Scotland and curated by Clare Wilsdon, Professor at Glasgow University and author of In the Gardens of Impressionism (Thames and Hudson, 2004). The exhibition includes a large group of Impressionist paintings with masterpieces [...]

Exhibition of Impressionist Gardens at the National Galleries of Scotland Delights 100,000 Visitors

EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland announced that the blockbuster exhibition Impressionist Gardens has ended its hugely successful run on a high note, with total visitor figures of nearly 100,000. Extended opening hours allowed almost 17,000 people to see the exhibition in its final week at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh, and the show attracted an average daily attendance of 1,250 over its 78-day run, from 31 July to 17 October. In total, there were 99,509 ticketed visitors to [...]

Photographer Mario Testino Exhibits His Works at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

MADRID.- From 21 September the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting for the first time in Spain the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino. The exhibition Todo o Nada brings together 54 photographs that reveal the two opposing concepts to be found in his work, fashion and the nude. These concepts are present both in his better known activities as a fashion photographer, including the images that he has created for Vogue, Vanity Fair, V Magazine, Allure and The Face, as [...]

Thyssen-Bornemisza Announces Exhibition of Photographs by Mario Testino

MADRID.- For the first time in Spain, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino. The exhibition Todo o Nada brings together 54 photographs that reveal the two opposing concepts to be found in his work, fashion and the nude. These concepts are present both in his better known activities as a fashion photographer, including the images that he has created for Vogue, Vanity Fair, V Magazine, Allure and The Face, as well as in [...]

Monet and Abstraction Now on View at Musée Marmottan Monet

PARIS.- Co-organised by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, La Caja Madrid and the Musée Marmottan Monet, the exhibition Monet and abstraction is presented at the Musée Marmottan Monet from 17 June to 26 September 2010. Monet’s heritage continues to prompt new comparisons: in recent years, his influence on the abstract painters of the second half of the 20th century has been extensively explored. The new exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet examines this modernist legacy, bringing together forty-four Impressionist and [...]

Ghirlandaio and Renaissance Florence at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

MADRID.- On 23 June the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza presents the temporary exhibition Ghirlandaio and Renaissance Florence. Comprising a survey of quattrocento Florentine art, its starting point is one of the great icons in the Museum’s permanent collection: Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni, painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio between 1489 and 1490. Displayed in conjunction with this masterpiece of Florentine art is a carefully-chosen group of 60 works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, medals and various decorative objects. They have been [...]

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Announces the Exhibition Monet and Abstraction

MADRID.- This coming February, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting the exhibition “Monet and Abstraction”. It offers a survey of the work of the great French Impressionist painter from an innovative perspective and one never previously employed in the context of a temporary exhibition of this scale and importance, namely the artist’s relationship with the development of abstraction in the second half of the 20th-century. From his ethereal London landscapes to the monumental depictions of his garden [...]