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Berthe Morisot

Organized by Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza with the collaboration of Musée Marmottan Paris

15 November 2011 to 12 February 2012

Author:
Berthe Morisot
Title:
At the ball (detail)
Date:
1875
Technical:
Oil on canvas
Measures:
62 x 52 cm
Location:

Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.
The Blue Circus

Chagall

Organised by Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and Caja Madrid Foundation

From 14 February to 20 May 2012

Author:
Marc Chagall
Title:
The Blue Circus (Le cirque bleu)
Date:
1950-52
Technical:
Oil on linen canvas
Measures:
232.5 x 175.8 cm.
Location:
Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national d’art moderne/Centre de création industrielle. Dation 1988.
© VEGAP, Madrid 2012. - Chagall ®
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Mondrian, De Stijl and Dutch artistic tradition

New displays of the collections

From 7 February to 6 May 2012

Next Exhibitions

The Madonna of the Village.
  • Marc Chagall.
  • The Madonna of the Village.
  • 1938-1942.
  • Oil on canvas.
  • 102.5 x 98 cm.
  • Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.

Chagall

From 14 February to 20 May 2012

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and Caja Madrid Foundation

Organised by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid and curated by Jean-Louis Prat, President of the Comité Chagall, this exhibition will be the first major retrospective in Spain devoted to this Russian artist. Its principal aim is to highlight the prominent role played by Chagall within the history of art. The galleries of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza will display work from the artist’s early years and from his period in Paris, at that time capital of the avant-garde. In addition, there will be sections on Chagall’s experience in Revolutionary Russia and in France up to the time of his enforced exile to the United States in 1941. The exhibition space of Fundación Caja Madrid will focus on the artist’s American years and on his subsequent artistic evolution. Attention will be paid to his use of biblical subjects and his relationship with contemporary poets. Also on display will be works in other media such as sculptures, ceramics and stained-glass windows.

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Krishna Cleaves the Demon Narakasura with his Discus.
  • Krishna Cleaves the Demon Narakasura with his Discus.
  • ca. 1585-1590
  • Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, mounted as an album page.
  • 30.1 cm x 18.1 cm.
  • Edwin Binney 3rd Collection.

Visions of India. South Asian Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art

From 28 February to 20 May 2012

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

The Binney Collection of Indian Art in the San Diego Museum of Art (USA) is one of the world’s most important collections of 12th to 19th-century South East Asian art. A selection of 105 paintings, prints and manuscripts will now be shown in Europe for the first time, introducing visitors to the work of local artists produced for rulers and for the Persian, Central Asian and European merchants who arrived in India during this period. The works on display demonstrate these artists’ remarkable ability to adapt and modify their traditional style without losing their distinctively Indian character. The exhibition is organised into four sections, starting with a juxtaposition of works in the autochthonous Indian tradition and the type of painting that was produced for foreign clients from the 15th century onwards. This is followed by a second section on the illumination of books of Persian poetry, a third on the birth and evolution of the new style that arose from the confluence between these two traditions in the 16th century under Mughal rule, and a final section with paintings produced for British traders and civil servants associated with the East India Company. The latter constituted a notably enlightened group of clients, whose desire for knowledge about India is reflected in works that convey the natural beauties of the country, its flora and fauna, landscapes and peoples.

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Hotel Room.
  • Edward Hopper.
  • Hotel Room.
  • 1931.
  • Oil on canvas.
  • 152.4 x 165.7 cm.
  • Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.

Edward Hopper

From 12 June to 16 September 2012

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

The exhibition Edward Hopper is the result of a collaborative project between the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux de France. These are two particularly important institutions with regard to Hopper, given that Paris and early 20th-century works of art were key reference points for the artist, while the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid houses the most important collection of his work outside the USA. Despite their enormous popularity and apparent accessibility, Hopper’s paintings are among the most complex phenomena within 20th-century art in the opinion of the exhibition’s two curators, Tomàs Llorens (Honorary Director of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza) and Didier Ottinger (Associate Director of the MNAM/Centre Pompidou). In order to demonstrate this point the exhibition will be organised into two parts: a first half that covers the artist’s formative years from approximately 1900 to 1924, represented through a comprehensive selection of sketches, paintings, drawings, illustrations, prints and watercolours that will be complemented by works of artists as Winslow Homer, Robert Henri, John Sloan, Edgar Degas or Walter Sickert; a second half will cover the years 1925 onwards, that focuses on Hopper’s mature output and aims to illustrate his career in the most complete and wide-ranging manner possible. In order to do so, this section combines thematic groupings (recurring motifs and subjects in Hopper’s works) with an overall chronological ordering.

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Gauguin and the voyage to the exotic.
  • Paul Gauguin.
  • Mata Mua (Once upon a Time).
  • 1892.
  • Oil on canvas.
  • 91 x 69 cm.
  • Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Colection, on deposit with the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum of Madrid.

Gauguin and the voyage to the exotic

From 09 October 2012 to 13 January 2013

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Paul Gauguin’s flight to Tahiti, where he reclaimed primitivism through exoticism, is the guiding thread of this exhibition. Through a comprehensive selection of works by late 19th- and early 20th-century artists, it aims to reveal how travelling to supposedly more “authentic” regions brought about a transformation of the creative idiom and to what extent this experience affected the transition to modern art. The exhibition’s curator, Paloma Alarcó, Head of the Department of Modern Paintings at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, has devised a two-part structure: the first, focuses on the innovations of Gauguin, Matisse, Kandinsky, Klee and Macke, among others, while the second part, is devoted to the influence of Gauguin on the German Expressionists and the French Fauves during the early decades of the 20th century. It also includes a section on Matisse’s last trip to Tahiti.

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Étretat. The Cliff at Aval.
  • Eugène Boudin.
  • Étretat. The Cliff at Aval.
  • 1890.
  • Oil on canvas.
  • 79.9 x 109.9 cm.
  • Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Colection, on deposit with the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum of Madrid.

Painting Outdoors

From 05 February to 12 May 2013

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

The principal aim of this exhibition is to offer an analysis of the practice of painting outdoors as a factor within the transformation and modernisation of 19th-century art. In general, this practice is generally associated with Impressionism. In fact, although Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Pissarro first started to exhibit their works in the photographer Nadar’s studio in 1874, plein air painting had already existed for nearly a century and the execution of studies painted outdoors were a key part of a landscape painter’s training from the late 18th century onwards. They subsequently became a fundamental element within naturalism and their importance as a modernising factor within painting lasted until the end of the 19th century. The exhibition will bring together around 100 works and will span a chronological period from 1780 to 1900. It starts with work by some of the founders of plein air landscape painting such as Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes and Thomas Jones, and continues through the work of figures such as Turner, Constable, Corot, Rousseau, Courbet, Daubigny and all the great figures of Impressionism, concluding at the end of the century with Van Gogh and Cézanne among many other key names. The exhibition is curated by Juan Ángel López, Curator of the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.

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