Museo Carmen Thyssen

Black is the Night. Solana, Cossío, Bores

This exhibition, which brings together for the first time the graphic work of three artists who played a key role in the drive to modernise Spanish art in the 1920s and the 1930s – José Gutiérrez Solana, Pancho Cossío and Francisco Bores –, introduces spectators t...

Painting Light. Catalan Masters from the Carmen Thyssen Collection

A keen collector of works full of colour and emotion which captivate viewers with their beauty, Baroness Carmen Thyssen seems to have been concerned with painting light when she assembled her extraordinary holdings of Catalan masters.

Sun-drenched landscapes and melancholic dus...

The illusion of the American Frontier

Over the course of the nineteenth century, the conquest of the Wild West became more than a historical event in the founding of the United States of America, developing into a universal myth in which legend progressively replaced history.

In the arts, fascination for those majestic unex...