Frivolite: Indumentaria del siglo XVIII. Colección del Museo San Telmo San Sebastián’s Museo San Telmo displays for the first time 42 items from its collection of 18th-century costume, 14 June – 28 September. The exhibition includes entire dress combinations along with stockings and accessories such as fans and bags all placed in context by prints, paintingsContinue reading “Frivolite: Indumentaria del siglo XVIII. Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián”
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Eduardo Chillida: San Sebastián
Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) Bideak/Caminos/Paths, Sala kubo-kutxa Aretoa, San Sebastián, 20 June – 28 September, 2014. The first survey exhibition since 1992 about the Basque sculptor to open in the city of his birth, where he lived and developed his career over more than 50 years. This exhibition of 140 works, large and small, sculptures andContinue reading “Eduardo Chillida: San Sebastián”
De Goya à Delacroix: Musée Rolin, Autun
De Goya à Delacroix: les relations artistiques de la famille Guillemardet, Musée Rolin, Autun, 21 June – 21 September 2014. Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Louvre about the Burgundian doctor and mayor of Autun (1791) Ferdinand Guillemardet, who became French ambassador to Spain and formed close family relations with Goya, who painted his portrait.Continue reading “De Goya à Delacroix: Musée Rolin, Autun”
ARTES visit: Contemplation of the Divine, Sotheby’s, London
Contemplation of the Divine, Sotheby’s, New Bond Street Galleries, 5-16 July 2014 ARTES Members’ visit: Monday, 7 July, 2:30PM. Comprises a selection of predominantly Spanish, Italian and Early Netherlandish paintings and sculpture ranging in period from the Early Renaissance through until the late Baroque. Link to the web catalogue Link to the catalogue (page-turner version)
Sorolla: the Colour of the Sea, Barcelona
Sorolla: El Color del Mart (The Colour of the Sea), CaixaForum, Barcelona, 12 June – 14 September 2014. Previously shown at the Museo Sorolla, Madrid, from which many of the paintings have been selected along with works from the Museo Thyssen in Malaga. The exhibition focuses on Sorolla’s favourite theme, the sea and the manyContinue reading “Sorolla: the Colour of the Sea, Barcelona”
Susana Solana, Barcelona
Susana Solana, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, 23 May-6 September. A focused display from the Fundació’s collection of the abstract sculptures and installations produced by the Barcelona-born Susana Solana (1946). Since she began her career in the 1980s Solana has become internationally renowned through exhibitions at Kassel Documenta (1987, 1992), São Paolo Bienal (1987) and the Venice BiennaleContinue reading “Susana Solana, Barcelona”
José de Madrazo y Agudo (1781-1859) Drawings, Santander
José de Madrazo y Agudo (1781-1859) Drawings, Fundación Botín, Santander, 12 June – 14 September. Exhibition of a previously unpublicized aspect of Madrazo’s work, including many drawings from the hundreds of previously unknown works recently discovered by the Prado in the hands of Madrazo’s descendants. The exhibition includes 61 drawings, four prints and four oilsContinue reading “José de Madrazo y Agudo (1781-1859) Drawings, Santander”
Fotografía en España,1850-1870, Madrid
Spanish Photography (1850-1870) in the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, 27 May – 14 September, 2014. Photographs by named and anonymous artists working in Spain such as Charles Clifford, Jean Laurent, José Martínez Sánchez, Alonso Martínez y Hermano, José Spreafico and Joaquín Pedrosa.
Prado New Acquisitions (2013)
The Prado has put on display (from April 2014 onwards) in the appropriate gallery rooms its acquisitions over the last year. These include six Spanish paintings: two early works painted by Alonso Cano before 1638, St Teresa of Avila’s Vision of Christ Crucified and St Teresa’s Vision of the Resurrected Christ (or) The Mystic MarriageContinue reading “Prado New Acquisitions (2013)”
El Greco and Modern Painting, Madrid
El Greco y la Pintura Moderna (El Greco and Modern Painting), Prado Museum, Madrid, 24 June – 5 October 2014. The latest of the exhibitions in Spain devoted to the Cretan’s art and influence focuses on the rediscovery of El Greco by nineteenth- and twentieth-century modern and avant-garde artists in France, Germany, Spain and NorthContinue reading “El Greco and Modern Painting, Madrid”
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