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Surrealism and the Dream

Surrealism and the Dream
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
8 October 2013 – 12 January 2014
Opening on 8 October, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the first monographic exhibition on Surrealism and the dream. Including a total of 163 works by the great Surrealist masters –André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Max Ernst, André Masson, Jean Arp and Man Ray– the exhibition will offer a thematic presentation of the Surrealists’ visual interpretation of the world of dreams.

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Camille Pissarro #MuseoThyssenBornemisza

Pissarro
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
4 June – 15 September 2013
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the first monographic exhibition in Spain on the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). The exhibition brings together 80 works loaned from numerous museums and collections world-wide and focuses on the Landscape, the prevailing genre within Pissarro’s oeuvre, following a chronological journey through the different places in which the artist lived and worked.

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Hyperrealism 1967-2012

Hyperrealism 1967-2012
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
22 March – 9 June 2013
In the late 1960s a group of artists emerged in the United States who painted scenes and objects from daily life with a high degree of realism, using photography as the basis for their works and achieving international recognition at Documenta in Kassel in 1972. For the first time, the exhibition now presented at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza offers a survey of Hyperrealism that starts with the great US masters of the first generation such as Richard Estes, John Baeder, Tom Blackwell, Don Eddy, Ralph Goings and Chuck Close, continues in Europe with their influence on subsequent generations, and concludes in the present day.

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The Art of Cartier

The Art of Cartier
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
24 October 2012 – 17 February 2013
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza will be showing this fall The Art of Cartier, an exhibition featuring more than 420 works from the Cartier Collection, from its origins to the present day. One of the most important on the subject organised to date due to the number of pieces on display, the exhibition reflects the spirit and artistic evolution of Cartier from the time it was founded in Paris in 1847.

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Gauguin and the Voyage to the Exotic

Gauguin and the Voyage to the Exotic
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
9 October 2012 to 13 January 2013
To coincide with the celebration of the Museum’s 20th Anniversary, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza will be presenting Gauguin and the Voyage to the Exotic, opening on 9 October.

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Hopper

Hopper
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
12 June – 16 September 2012
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Réunion des musées nationaux de France are presenting the exhibition Hopper to be shown first in Madrid then in Paris. It will bring together the largest and most ambitious selection of works by the US artist ever to be shown in Europe, with loans from major museums and institutions including the MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, in addition to various private collections and with a particularly generous loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The latter is sending 14 works from the Bequest of Josephine N. Hopper, the artist’s wife.

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Into India

Into India – South Asian Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
28 February – 20 May 2012
From 28 February, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza will be holding the first exhibition in Spain of a selection of South Asian paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art, California. The exhibition will offer visitors a unique opportunity to appreciate the entire evolution of Indian painting from the 12th to the mid-19th centuries through 106 paintings, prints and manuscripts. Together they reveal the remarkable capacity of the artists who created them to adapt and modify their traditional styles without losing their uniquely Indian character.

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Marc Chagall at Madrid

Chagall
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
14 February to 20 May 2012
The first retrospective on the Russian artist Marc Chagall to be organised in Spain will open in February at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid. More than 150 works from public and private collections and institutions around the world will be on display in the two venues, offering a complete overview of the career of one of the leading artists of the 20th century: a unique creative figure with a highly distinctive style who played a key role in the history of modern art.

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Heroines at Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain)

Heroines
Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza
8 March to 5 June 2011
This March, the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting Heroines, a comprehensive survey of the depiction of women as the protagonists of key roles and as manifestations of the gender identity crisis in western art. The exhibition focuses on strong women: active, independent, defiant, inspired, creative, dominating and triumphant.

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Jean-Léon Gérôme at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Jean-Léon Gérôme
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
15 February – 22 May 2011
From mid-February onwards the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid will be presenting the first retrospective exhibition in Spain to be devoted to the French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). The exhibition will include nearly 60 works that encompass all the different facets of Gérôme’s career, including some of his most celebrated and important creations, both oil paintings and sculptures.

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