Museo Carmen Thyssen

Casas-Rusiñol. Two modernist visions

Bourgeois, Bohemians, successful painters in Spain and Europe and foremost practitioners of Catalan modernism, Ramón Casas (1866–1932) and Santiago Rusiñol (1861–1931) are two of the great Spanish artists of the late 1800s who revitalised the painting scene of their day ...

Modern and seductive. Women in the ABC Collection (1900−1936)

During the first decades of the twentieth century, the illustrations in the weekly magazine Blanco y Negro and the daily newspaper ABC – two of the periodic publications with the largest circulation at the time – conveyed the image of a new, active and modern woman. ...

Sorolla in Jávea

Joaquín Sorolla (1863−1923) discovered Jávea in the autumn of 1896. The scenery of the place proved to be quite a revelation for the painter, then thirty-three. Sorolla was familiar with the landscapes of the beaches of his native Valencia, where he had spent hours on end maki...