Museo Carmen Thyssen

Pintura liberada

Some thirty works by more than twenty artists make up this diverse and colourful mosaic of the figurative painting that became a symbol of the new modernity ushered in by Spain’s transition to democracy in the 1980s.

For the main players in this productive period for Spanish conte...

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...

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...