Del 31 de octubre de 2023 al 4 de febrero de 2024

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

El Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza presenta este otoño Maestras, una exposición comisariada por Rocío de la Villa desde una perspectiva feminista que ofrece un recorrido, desde finales del siglo XVI a las primeras décadas del siglo XX, a través de más de un centenar de piezas de artistas como Artemisia Gentileschi, Angelica Kauffmann, Clara Peeters, Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, María Blanchard, Natalia Goncharova, Sonia Delaunay o Maruja Mallo. Todas fueron célebres en su tiempo y hoy vuelven a ser reconocidas como maestras, en contestación al borrado en la historia del arte que sufrieron junto a otras creadoras menos conocidas que rompieron moldes con obras de indudable excelencia.

Partiendo de la noción actual de sororidad, la muestra focaliza grupos de artistas, mecenas y galeristas que compartieron valores y condiciones socioculturales y teóricas favorables, pese al sistema patriarcal. La conjunción de periodos históricos, géneros artísticos y temas es el eje principal sobre el que se vertebra el proyecto, evidenciando cómo estas artistas abordaron cuestiones candentes en su época, tomaron posición y aportaron nuevas iconografías y miradas alternativas.

La exposición es la primera gran muestra enmarcada en el proceso de redefinición feminista que el Museo Thyssen está realizando en los últimos años, y cuenta con la colaboración de la Comunidad de Madrid y el patrocinio de Carolina Herrera. Tras su presentación en Madrid, una versión reducida de la muestra podrá verse en el Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck de Remagen (Alemania).

By Sotheby’s

Expected to Realise in the Region of £65 Million / $80 Million

“Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) is the last portrait Gustav Klimt created before his untimely death, when still in his artistic prime and producing some of his most accomplished and experimental works. Many of those works, certainly the portraits for which he is best known, were commissions. This, though, is something completely different – a technical tour de force, full of boundary-pushing experimentation, as well as a heartfelt ode to absolute beauty.”

HELENA NEWMAN, SOTHEBY’S CHAIRMAN, EUROPE, AND WORLDWIDE HEAD OF IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART

LONDON, 14 JUNE 2023 – Today, Sotheby’s reveals a work that is not only the star of the summer auction season in London, but also one of the finest and most valuable works of art ever to be offered in Europe.

Still standing on an easel in Gustav Klimt’s studio at the time of the artist’s unexpected and untimely death in February 1918, Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan) – a beautiful, rich and alluring portrait of an unnamed woman – brings together all the technical prowess and creative exuberance that define Klimt’s greatest work.

The last portrait Klimt painted, Dame mit Fächer is also among his finest works, created when he was still in his artistic prime, and at a moment when the ‘formality’ of his earlier commissioned work gives way to a new expressivity – an ever-deeper, ever-more joyful immersion in pattern, colour and form, which – while clearly influenced by his contemporaries Van Gogh, Matisse and Gauguin – became something entirely different in his hands.

Similarly, while the slightly earlier works of Klimt’s famous ‘golden period’ – led by the iconic portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I of 1907 – see their sitter presented icon-like, amid a tapestry of golden shapes, here the sitter almost dissolves into the background, the soft patterning of the woman’s skin repeated in the pale-yellow background.

DAME MIT FÄCHER ON AN EASEL IN KLIMT’S STUDIO, 1918

Klimt first started work on Lady with a Fan in 1917, by which time he was among the most celebrated portraitists in Europe: commissions came thick and fast, for which he was able to command prices far higher than any of his contemporaries. But this was a rare work painted entirely in the pursuit of his own interests. Full of freedom and spontaneity, it reflects Klimt’s joy in painting it and in celebrating beauty in its purest form. It also reveals his innovative approach. Traditionally, portraits were – and still are – painted in the eponymous ‘portrait (or vertical) form’. Here, Klimt returns to the square format that he used for his avantgarde landscapes earlier in the century, giving this painting a uniquely ‘modern’ edge.

Klimt also here gives full expression to his complete fascination with Chinese and Japanese art and culture. Luscious, silken kimonos and Chinese robes are known to have been his dresswear of choice, and his home abounded with beautiful objects from the East. Egon Schiele, a regular visitor, describes it like this: ‘the sitting room, [was] furnished with a square table in the middle and a large number of Japanese prints covering the walls… and from there into another room whose wall was entirely covered by a huge wardrobe, which held his marvelous collection of Chinese and Japanese robes.’

In Dame mit Fächer, Klimt draws principally on Chinese motifs: the phoenix (symbol of immortality and rebirth, good fortune and fidelity) and lotus blossoms (symbols of love, happy marriage and/or purity). Meanwhile, his flattening of the background and juxtaposition of patterns reflects his deep interest in Japanese woodblock prints.

“The beauty and sensuality of the portrait lies in the detail: the flecks of blue and pink which enliven the sitter’s skin, the feathery lines of her eyelashes and the pursed lips that give her face character. Klimt here gave himself full freedom to capture on canvas a devastatingly beautiful woman. Her provocatively bared shoulder, poise and quiet self-assurance combine to stunning effect.”

THOMAS BOYD BOWMAN, HEAD OF IMPRES SIONIST AND MODERN ART EVENING SALES, SOTHEBY’S LONDON

The painting was acquired shortly after Klimt’s death by Viennese industrialist Erwin Böhler. The Böhler family, including Erwin’s brother Heinrich and his cousin Hans, were close friends and patrons of both Klimt and Egon Schiele. They vacationed with Gustav Klimt on the Attersee, a lake near Salzburg that was the inspiration for many of the artist’s most important landscapes and can be seen in photographs together. In 1916 Erwin purchased the Litzelberg – a small island in the lake immortalised in Klimt’s paintings. An important supporter of the arts, Erwin Böhler commissioned leading architect Josef Hoffmann to decorate the rooms of his apartment in the Palais Dumba in Vienna where the painting hung in the Music Room alongside Klimt’s landscapes Waldabhang in Unterach am Attersee and Presshaus am Attersee which were also part of his collection. The work eventually passed to Heinrich and then, upon his death in 1940, to Heinrich’s wife Mabel.

By 1967 it was in the collection of Rudolf Leopold, who is known to have purchased a large group of Schiele drawings from Mabel Böhler in 1952 and may also have acquired this work from her. Dame mit Fächer was last offered for sale nearly thirty years ago in 1994, when it was acquired by the family of the present owner. Most recently it was the subject of an important exhibition at the Belvedere in Vienna where it was reunited with and shown alongside Klimt’s other great, late masterpieces.

The exhibition of the painting in Sotheby’s New Bond Street galleries later this month will mark a major moment for Klimt lovers in London, with three major portraits by the artist on view simultaneously in the capital for the first time ever. (The other portraits, Hermine Gallia of 1904 and Adele Bloch Bauer II of 1912, are currently on view in the National Gallery’s much-acclaimed show, ‘After Impressionism’.)

One of only a small number of portraits by Klimt still in private hands, Lady with a Fan will be offered in Sotheby’s marquee Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in London on 27 June with an estimate in the region of £65 million ($80 million).

The appearance of this major work at auction marks an important moment for the market: not only is the painting the most valuable ever to have been offered at auction in Europe, it also now joins the ranks of the most valuable portraits – of any era – ever to have come to auction.

Klimt himself also sits in the select pantheon of artists to have achieved over $100m at auction – his Birch Forest having sold as part of the Paul G. Allen Collection last year for $104.6m. While that was a landscape, only one portrait by Klimt of this calibre has ever appeared at auction before: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II, from 1912, which made $87.9m in 2006.

Dame mit Fächer also joins a strong sequence of spectacular works to have starred in Sotheby’s Marquee Seasons in London: most recently René Magritte’s L’empire des lumières (sold for £59.4m / $79.8m, March 2022) and Wassily Kandinsky’s Murnau mit Kirche II (sold for £37.2m / $44.9m, March 2023).

The star offering in London this June, Dame mit Fächer will feature large in what is set to be a very special season of auctions, exhibitions and events at Sotheby’s this summer, much of which will be focussed around the subject of portraiture – timed to celebrate the much-anticipated reopening of the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Accordingly, Sotheby’s marquee Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction on 27 June will include a strong grouping of portraits – by leading artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Edvard Munch, Leonor Fini, Elizabeth Peyton and Kerry James Marshall – all to be presented in a special sequence (‘Face To Face’) dedicated to this long but totally timeless and multi-faceted tradition.

That too will be complemented by a special exhibition of masterpieces from Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, one of Britain’s finest stately homes, featuring works by Rembrandt, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lucian Freud and Michael Craig-Martin, many of them never seen in the UK outside of Chatsworth before.

Portraits from Chatsworth – A Loan Exhibition will be on public view from 30 May to 4 July. Meanwhile, Klimt’s Dame mit Fächer, and other highlights from Sotheby’s suite of flagship June sales will be on view to the public from 20 to 27 June. Both exhibitions are free and open to all.

Notes to Editors

Highest prices ever achieved at auction in Europe:

£65m / $104.3m – Alberto Giacometti, Walking Man I (Sotheby’s London, February 2010) – record for any work of art sold at auction in Europe

£40.9m / $80.4m – Claude Monet, Le basin aux nymphéas – (Christie’s London, June 2008) – record for any painting sold at auction in Europe

£59.4m / $79.8m – René Magritte, L’empire des lumières (Sotheby’s London, March 2022)

£49.5m / $76.7m – Rubens, The Massacre of the Innocents (Sotheby’s London, July 2002)

El Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza y Olyverse, plataforma de entretenimiento que conecta a fans y estrellas en un metaverso mediante experiencias inmersivas y colecciones exclusivas de arte en formato NFTs, han anunciado hoy la firma de un acuerdo sin precedentes que une el mundo del arte tradicional con las tecnologías más disruptivas.

Gracias a esta colaboración, el museo lanzará una experiencia inmersiva en donde el visitante, además de disponer de una muestra del coleccionable digital Les Vessenots en Auvers de Van Gogh, se podrá sumergir dentro del metaverso y disfrutar del arte con una experiencia sin precedentes.

Es la primera vez que una institución pública como el Museo Thyssen da un salto de este estilo hacia modelos artísticos respaldados por tecnología blockchain, democratizando así el acceso a los nuevos formatos y dando un paso al futuro de la mano de Olyverse. El Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza se convierte en pionero en España al adoptar esta innovadora forma de presentar el arte al público, abriendo las puertas a una nueva forma de fusionar el arte tradicional y el digital.

Ahora, cien coleccionistas podrán poseer un Van Gogh certificado, con cada una de las cien obras de Les Vessenots en Auvers y experimentarla de una manera completamente nueva. Estos coleccionables digitales estarán disponibles a través de la plataforma de Olyverse, respaldadas por tecnología blockchain, lo que garantizará la propiedad única de cada pieza y su autenticidad, certificada directamente por el museo.

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“Basquiat x Warhol. Painting Four Hands” exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

In a new exhibition from April 5 to August 28, 2023, the Fondation Louis Vuitton presents a captivating collaboration between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. Five years after the resounding success of the “Jean-Michel Basquiat” exhibition, which drew 700,000 visitors, the Foundation continues to explore the artist’s work through this creative tandem with Warhol.

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These two giants of contemporary art created around 160 “four-hand” paintings together between 1984 and 1985. The exhibition, curated by Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer in collaboration with Fondation Louis Vuitton curator Olivier Michelon, brings together over eighty canvases signed by both artists, along with individual works by each of them. The exhibition – the largest ever dedicated to this remarkable collaboration – opens with a series of portraits of Basquiat by Warhol and Warhol by Basquiat. It continues with the first collaborations in which Italian artist Francesco Clemente took part, initiated by Bruno Bischofberger, gallerist to both Basquiat and Warhol. After completing these fifteen paintings with Clemente, Basquiat and Warhol pursued their collaboration on an almost daily basis with tremendous enthusiasm and palpable affinity. Visitors are drawn through all the galleries of the Foundation by their energy and uninterrupted exchanges.

“Andy would start one (painting) and put something very recognizable on it, or a product logo, and I would sort of deface it. Then I would try to get him to work some more on it, I would try to get him to do at least two things,” Basquiat explained.

“I drew it first and then I painted it like Jean-Michel. I think those paintings we’re doing together are better when you can’t tell who did which parts,” Warhol said.

Keith Haring, who witnessed their friendship and “four-hand” creative output, spoke of “a conversation occurring through painting, not words”, and of two minds merging to create “a third distinctive and unique mind.”

The exhibition curators evoke the energy of the New York downtown art scene of the 1980s by including works by other key artists of the period, notably Keith Haring, as well as Jenny Holzer and Kenny Scharf. Also featured are photographs, especially the famous boxing gloves photos of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol shot in 1985 by Michael Halsband and reproduced for the exhibition poster.

“Some forty years later, this exhibition is an invitation to live in the present and experience, in the Foundation’s galleries, one of the most intense artistic episodes of the second half of the twentieth century. Because by creating ‘with four hands’, the two artists not only expressed generosity and reciprocal confidence, they also invite us into their conversation,” states Bernard Arnault, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LVMH.

The exhibition shows the back-and-forth interaction between the two artists in a dialogue of styles and forms that also takes on fundamental issues such as the integration of the African-American community in the narrative of North America, a continent in which Warhol was a leading manufacturer of icons.

sources: www.lvmh.com

Sotheby's---Picasso’s-Joyful-&-Tender-Portrait-of-his-Daughter-Maya

Picasso’s Joyful & Tender Portrait of his Daughter Maya – Born in Secrecy to his Greatest Love – Comes to Auction with an Estimate of $15-20 Million

By Sotheby’s

 

Formerly Owned by Gianni Versace, the Painting Reemerges onto the Market for the First Time in Almost a Quarter of a Century

– The First Portrait of Maya by Picasso to Appear at Auction Since 1999 –

Sotheby’s London, 1 March 2023

Sotheby's---Picasso’s-Joyful-&-Tender-Portrait-of-his-Daughter-Maya

Sotheby’s—Picasso’s-Joyful-&-Tender-Portrait-of-his-Daughter-Maya

LONDON, JANUARY 2023 – The women in Picasso’s life have always been at the heart of the artist’s oeuvre. On September 5, 1935, a new muse arrived in the form of his daughter Maya, named María de la Conceptión after Picasso’s beloved late sister, and born in secrecy while Picasso was still married to his first wife, the former ballerina Olga Khokhlova. The daughter of his greatest love Marie-Thérèse Walter, Maya was to prove an immense source of happiness for Picasso. Her timely birth coincided with a personal crisis which Picasso later referred to as “the worst period of his life”. A lengthy divorce battle with Olga and the associated loss of his beloved property, Château de Boisgeloup, in combination with the increasingly worsening political situation in Europe and a deepening sense of the inevitability of war, conspired to overwhelm the artist, who was experiencing a nearly year-long abstinence from painting.

Between January 1938 and November 1939 Picasso painted fourteen portraits of Maya – the most important series Picasso devoted to one of his children, in which his joy as a father finds poignant expression in his joy as an artist. One of the artist’s most playful and bold depictions of his daughter will now appear at auction for the first time in more than 20 years. Estimated at $15-20 million (in the region of £12-18 million), Fillette au bateau (Maya) will be offered in Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in London on 1 March 2023. Kept by Picasso until his death in 1973, the painting was subsequently owned by Gianni Versace, before being sold by Sotheby’s in London in 1999 as part of the late fashion designer’s collection of 25 works by the artist. Its reappearance on the market coincides with the passing of Maya Ruiz-Picasso on December 20, 2022, at 87 years of age. The work will go on view at Sotheby’s Hong Kong (5-7 February), New York (11-15 February) and London (22 February-1 March).

“In his portraits of Maya, Picasso reached for his most joyful, brightly coloured palette, and employed a combination of styles to elevate his daughter to the same level as his paintings of her mother, Marie-Thérèse – the artist’s greatest love, with whom we associate his most romantic pictures. There is a continued strong demand for paintings from the 1930s, and a work of this calibre is made even more remarkable for not having appeared on the market in almost a quarter of a century.”

SAMUEL VALETTE, SENIOR SPECIALIST, IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART DEPARTMENT, SOTHEBY’S LONDON

Painted on 4 February 1938, when Maya was two-and-a-half years old – shortly after Picasso had completed the monumental and harrowing Guernica – the portrait is filled with exuberant colour and energy. Picasso depicts Maya at eye level, and captures her fidgety nature through implied movement, while her face is depicted with the Cubistic distortion that was common in Picasso’s pictures from this era. An important feature of Picasso’s series of portraits of Maya is the striking resemblance that Maya’s features carry to those of her mother, Marie-Thérèse.

It was no secret that Picasso revered childhood, and in his art attempted to capture the spirit and freedom that often eludes adult creativity. Playing with his children presented him with an opportunity to reclaim his lost youth, and his portraits of them were extensions of that cherished playtime. He would sing songs to his daughter, dance with her, make paintings for doll’s houses from matchboxes, puppet theatres using paper, and small fabric figures with heads made of chickpeas.

Maya was Picasso’s eldest daughter and second child, following the birth of Paulo in 1921 (born to Olga Khokhlova), and preceding Claude in 1947 and Paloma in 1949 (born to Françoise Gilot) – all of whom were represented by Picasso in his art.

Young María – who could not pronounce her name, so her parents opted for Maya instead – was a constant presence in the artist’s studio – while her father worked on the large canvas for Guernica, she would innocently pat her hands on the surface, recognising the distinguishable profile of her mother in the faces of the anguished victims of the massacre.

“With his eyes he looked; with his hands he drew or modelled; with his skin, nostrils, heart, mind, with his gut, he sensed who we were, what was hidden in us, our being. This, I think, is why he was able to understand the human being – however young – with such truth.”

MAYA RUIZ-PICASSO, ‘MEMORIES: IMAGES OF CHILDREN’, IN WERNER SPIES (ED.), PICASSO’S WORLD OF CHILDREN, MUNICH & NEW YORK, 1996, P. 57).

Picasso would produce a final portrait of Maya in 1953, just as she was about to turn eighteen. After her father died, Maya would go on to devote her adult life to preserving Picasso’s legacy – and, in turn, her daughter Diana Widmaier Picasso recently turned the spotlight on her grandfather’s relationship with her mother as a small child, with a critically acclaimed exhibition at Paris’ Musée de Picasso – which united this painting with other portraits in this series for the first time.

Also confirmed for Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction on 1 March, is a seminal four-metre-long painting by Edvard Munch exploring love, life and death on the Oslo fjord – from the walls of Max Reinhardt’s avant-garde Berlin theatre to a luxury cruise liner and hidden from the Nazis in a barn deep in the Norwegian forest, Dance on the Beach is being offered from the renowned Olsen Collection as part of a restitution settlement with the family of leading Jewish patron Curt Glaser, with an estimate of $15 – 25 million (in the region of £12 – 20 million). The sale will also include a monumental masterpiece from Gerhard Richter’s celebrated cycle of abstract painting. Also of spectacular proportions, and also spanning four metres across, Abstraktes Bild, 1986 will be offered with an estimate in excess of £20 million.

 

 

Portraits by Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) in the Museo del Prado

 

Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid12/21/2022 – 6/18/2023

This homage to Sorolla reunites in Room 60 at the Villanueva building, usually focused on 19th Century Collections, a selection of the artist’s portraits kept by the museum. The exhibition is completed with some artworks that are part of the Permanent Collection in Room 60A, next to the previous one, and 62A, where you can find portraits by artists from the 19th century, four by Sorolla among them. One of them, Martin Rico’s portrait, was acquired in 2022 and was placed in that room just a few months ago.

This set of portraits offers a complete and comprehensive vision of Sorolla’s evolution as a portraitist, which would give him international recognition at the beginning of the 20th…

Curator:
Javier Barón Thaidigsmann, Head of Department Nineteenth-century Painting

ACCESS

Room 60, 60A and 62A. Villanueva Building

EXHIBITION

The exhibition

Manuel Bartolomé Cossío
Joaquín Sorolla
1908
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

The dedication to portraiture evident in the work of Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) is remarkable in terms of both number and quality. The artist’s professional collaboration as a very young man with the photographer Antonio García introduced him to careful depiction from life, an aspect already evident in paintings from his formative period. In the first decade of the 20th century this approach led Sorolla to become one of the great, internationally renowned portraitists.

Of the 23 paintings by Joaquín Sorolla in the Museo del Prado, 18 are portraits, including two acquired in 2022: Martín Rico (Room 62A) and Manuel Bartolomé Cossío (Room 60A), now presented at the Museum. Most of these works – the least known, as they are not normally on display – are now included in this exhibition, which has been organised to mark the centenary of the artist’s death. It is completed with the works in the permanent collection on show in Room 60A, adjacent to this one, and Room 62A, devoted to portraits by 19th-century artists including four by Sorolla.

Sorolla’s contribution to the genre frequently reveals the inspiration of the Old Masters, notably Velázquez, an influence that was evident in the exhibition held at the Prado in 2009. It can be seen in the greys and blacks employed in The Painter Aureliano de Beruete and in María Teresa Moret, possibly the artist’s two finest portraits, as well as in the spatial ambiguity of the former. Velázquez is more explicitly referenced in María Figueroa dressed as a Menina and in The Actress María Guerrero as ‘La dama boba’. Cossío’s portrait was painted in the year he published his book on El Greco and Sorolla pays tribute to that painter, whose work, like that of Velázquez, he had studied at the Prado. Sorolla captured the essential physical features of his sitter while adding a subtle interpretation of his intellectual personality. This is frequently the case in his male portraits, which depict leading individuals of the cultural life of the day (a considerable number of them associated with the Institución Libre de Enseñanza) who were also friends of the painter. They include writers (Rafael Altamira, Jacinto Felipe Picón y Pardiñas, Aureliano de Beruete the younger, and Cossío), doctors (Francisco Rodríguez de Sandoval and Joaquín Decref) and painters (Martín Rico, Aureliano de Beruete, Juan Espina, and Antonio Gomar). For some portraits (Jacinto Felipe Picón y Pardiñas, The Painter Antonio Gomar, Dr Joaquín Decref) Sorolla employed a horizontal format which allowed him to work with innovative compositional viewpoints and add a striking sense of movement to the figures, which are often slightly inclined to one side.

Sorolla’s female portraits convey a particular sensuality (Mercedes Mendeville) and make use of a sumptuous palette (María de los Ángeles Beruete y Moret). Both works, examples of portraits of women of the highest social standing, reveal how Sorolla adhered to the requirements of the genre. In the case of other sitters, such as María Teresa Moret, a friend of the artist and his family, or Ella J. Seligmann, the wife of a well known art dealer, his interpretation was elegant and lifelike, based on a refined chromatic sensibility of blacks, greys and whites. The artist was also outstanding as a painter of children, as evident in his depictions of Jaime García Banús and María Figueroa.

Sorolla’s ability to capture his sitters rapidly from life, resulting in images that convey an intense sensation of reality, is evident in all these works. In them, the artist remained faithful not only to his naturalist approach but also to the profound grasp of individuality characteristic of the great Spanish pictorial tradition.

Joaquín Sorolla (retrato de estudio)García Peris, Antonio; Sáenz Corona, A. Albumen on paper Ca. 1901 Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado Sala 060

Joaquín Sorolla (retrato de estudio)

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Joaquín Sorolla (retrato de estudio)

García Peris, Antonio; Sáenz Corona, A.
Albumen on paper
Ca. 1901
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Sala 060

Rafael Altamira y Crevea

Rafael Altamira y Crevea

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Rafael Altamira y Crevea

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín
Oil on canvas
1886
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Sala 060

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Jaime García Banús

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín
Oil on canvas
1892
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Sala 060

María de Figueroa, dressed as a menina

María de Figueroa, dressed as a menina

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María de Figueroa, dressed as a menina

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín
Oil on canvas
1901
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

Jacinto Felipe Picón y Pardiñas

Jacinto Felipe Picón y Pardiñas

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Jacinto Felipe Picón y Pardiñas

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín
Oil on canvas
1904
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Sala 060A

María de los Ángeles Beruete y Moret, condesa viuda de Muguiro

María de los Ángeles Beruete y Moret, condesa viuda de Muguiro

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María de los Ángeles Beruete y Moret, condesa viuda de Muguiro

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín
Oil on canvas
1904
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Sala 060

Doctor Francisco Rodríguez de Sandoval

Doctor Francisco Rodríguez de Sandoval

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Doctor Francisco Rodríguez de Sandoval

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín
Oil on canvas
1906
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Sala 060

El doctor Joaquín Decref y Ruiz

El doctor Joaquín Decref y Ruiz

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El doctor Joaquín Decref y Ruiz

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín
Oil on canvas
1907
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

Don Ramón Piña y Millet

Don Ramón Piña y Millet

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Don Ramón Piña y Millet

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquín
Oil on canvas
1909
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado
Sala 060

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FERIA DE ARTE UVNT 2023
Feria Internacional de Nuevo Arte Contemporáneo

UVNT Art Fair celebra su séptima edición del 23 al 26 de febrero de 2023 en la sede del COAM en Madrid. Un espacio para explorar los lenguajes más frescos, integrar diferentes códigos estéticos y encontrar nuevas tendencias en el mundo del arte. Una feria donde encontrar artistas emergentes, artistas de mitad de carrera y entre ellos algunos grandes nombres de la escena contemporánea internacional.

UVNT ART FAIR 2023

FERIA DE ARTE UVNT 2023

Tras seis ediciones, la feria ha madurado y evolucionado y, en febrero de 2023, abrirá sus puertas para seguir posicionándose como cita imprescindible en la semana del arte de Madrid. Más de una treintena de galerías nacionales e internacionales estarán presentes para reflejar, como cada año, las tendencias artísticas actuales y seguir manteniendo la frescura y la innovación que forman parte de su ADN desde sus inicios.

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COAM. Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos Madrid

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23 al 26 de febrero

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Jueves 23: 12h-16h

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Jueves 23: 16h-22h

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ARTISTS 2023

Sus Majestades los Reyes Don Felipe VI y Doña Letizia han inaugurado la exposición “Sorolla a través de la luz”

SS.MM. LOS REYES INAUGURAN “SOROLLA A TRAVÉS DE LA LUZ” EN EL PALACIO REAL DE MADRID

Sus Majestades los Reyes Don Felipe VI y Doña Letizia han inaugurado este jueves la exposición “Sorolla a través de la luz”, en el Palacio Real de Madrid. En el recorrido por las salas de exposición han estado acompañados por el ministro de Cultura y Deporte, Miquel Iceta, la presidenta de Patrimonio Nacional, Ana de la Cueva, y las comisarias de la muestra, Blanca Pons-Sorolla y Consuelo Luca de Tena.

La exposición es una de las grandes citas del Centenario Sorolla (1863-1923), declarado Acontecimiento de Excepcional Interés Público (AEIP). Ha sido organizada por Patrimonio Nacional, el Museo Sorolla, la Fundación Museo Sorolla y la empresa Light Art Exhibitions.

En su recorrido, los Reyes han contemplado las 24 obras originales del pintor valenciano -gran parte de ellas nunca expuestas- y han visitado las salas sensoriales y de realidad virtual. Se trata de la primera exposición que fusiona la obra original de Sorolla con las recreaciones digitales. El público podrá disfrutar de ella desde este viernes 17 de febrero hasta el 30 de junio.

SOROLLA A TRAVÉS DE LA LUZ

PALACIO REAL DE MADRID

Del 17 de febrero al 30 de junio de 2023

El Palacio Real de Madrid se suma a los actos del Año Sorolla con ‘Sorolla a través de la luz’. Una muestra inédita para el público de Patrimonio Nacional y para los seguidores del artista: su obra original dialogará por primera vez con recreaciones digitales, como una sala sensorial y otra de realidad virtual.

Patrimonio Nacional, Fundación Museo SorollaMuseo Sorolla y Light Art Exhibitions organizan este proyecto comisariado por Consuelo Luca de Tena, exdirectora del Museo Sorolla, y Blanca Pons-Sorolla, bisnieta del pintor. Está incluido en el programa de actividades de la conmemoración del centenario de la muerte de Sorolla (1863-1923), declarado Acontecimiento de Excepcional Interés Público (AEIP) por el Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte.

El Palacio Real de Madrid acogerá en cuatro salas un total de 24 obras originales, en su mayoría procedentes de colecciones particulares y expuestas por primera vez. La selección representa los temas favoritos del pintor, como el mar, los jardines, los retratos y las escenas costumbristas. Las obras dialogarán con recursos tecnológicos de vanguardia mediante espectáculos de imagen y sonido que intensificarán la percepción del espectador.

El Palacio Real de Madrid presenta Sorolla su obra original con la realidad virtual

EL PALACIO REAL DE MADRID PRESENTA SOROLLA A TRAVÉS DE LA LUZ’, LA PRIMERA EXPOSICIÓN QUE FUSIONA SU OBRA ORIGINAL CON LA REALIDAD VIRTUAL

En la presentación ante los medios, la presidenta de Patrimonio Nacional, Ana de la Cueva, ha estado acompañada por las comisarias Blanca Pons-Sorolla Consuelo Luca de Tena, el director del Museo Sorolla, Enrique Varela Agüí, y el director de Light Art Exhibitions, Gonzalo Saavedra.

Ana de la Cueva ha afirmado que “para Patrimonio Nacional es un honor inaugurar el Año Sorolla con esta exposición en el Palacio Real de Madrid, que incorpora la tecnología más vanguardista. Rendimos así homenaje a uno de nuestros mejores pintores, a un artista muy vinculado a nuestros Reales Sitios, y lo hacemos con la tecnología más avanzada. Es una muestra más de que la colaboración público-privada es una vía con enorme potencial para difundir nuestro patrimonio y para el desarrollo del sector cultural”.

Las comisarias de la muestra han destacado los aspectos más sobresalientes. Para Consuelo Luca de Tena, “lo más interesante e innovador es que combina las salas sensoriales con la obra original”. “El retrato de Alfonso XIII es espectacular, todo un atrevimiento, como dijo la prensa del momento, y una muestra de su relación con el monarca”, ha afirmado Blanca Pons-Sorolla.

El director del Museo Sorolla, Enrique Varela Agüí, se ha mostrado “plenamente convencido de que la exposición seducirá tanto al público más formal y exigente como a aquellos más acostumbrados a códigos visuales más actuales, donde la tecnología es primordial”. “Es un proyecto realizado con gran rigor científico y será un hito expositivo en nuestro país”, ha dicho.

Además, el director de Light Art Exhibitions, Gonzalo Saavedra, ha dicho que “desde el inicio de este proyecto teníamos claro que queríamos dar al espectador esa experiencia que proporcionan las salas sensoriales y la realidad virtual pero, al mismo tiempo, sabíamos que lo más importante era dar la posibilidad de poder disfrutar de la obra original de Joaquín Sorolla”.

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Una exposición absolutamente innovadora: obra original, realidad virtual y experiencia sensorial

El Palacio Real de Madrid acoge la primera exposición en la que el público podrá acercarse a la obra original de Sorolla a través de 24 cuadros, muchos de ellos nunca antes expuestos, y sumergirse al mismo tiempo en una experiencia audiovisual, virtual e interactiva inspirada en su pincelada y en sus temas favoritos. Esta experiencia, inédita en el panorama expositivo, sobresale como uno de los principales eventos que conmemoran el centenario del pintor (1863-1923), declarado Acontecimiento de Excepcional Interés Público (AEIP).

Las dos primeras salas están cubiertas en todo su perímetro por multipantallas LED, con sonido e imagen en movimiento que amplían e intensifican el efecto sensorial de su pintura. Una experiencia envolvente de luz y color en la que también están presentes sus principales obras maestras en altísima resolución, combinadas y animadas.

A continuación, a lo largo de cuatro salas se presenta un conjunto de 24 obras originales en torno a tres de los temas más representativos del pintor: los retratos reales y los jardines, con un magnífico retrato de Alfonso XIII con uniforme de húsar pintado en La Granja de San Ildefonso en 1907; el mar y la playa, como el género más presente en su obra y más conocido y apreciado por el gran público; y los retratos familiares, con los que se inició como retratista al aire libre.

El colofón de la muestra es una emocionante experiencia de realidad virtual interactiva que traslada al visitante a la época de Sorolla. Gracias a esta tecnología, mediante unas gafas de realidad virtual, el público podrá caminar por la playa valenciana de la Malvarrosa en uno de sus cuadros y visitar el taller de trabajo en su casa de Madrid. Una experiencia en la que el visitante abandona su condición de espectador para comenzar a interactuar con diferentes elementos virtuales sobre su vida y su obra.

EXPOSICIÓN

SOROLLA A TRAVÉS DE LA LUZ

PALACIO REAL DE MADRID

Del 17 de febrero al 30 de junio de 2023

El Palacio Real de Madrid se suma a los actos del Año Sorolla con ‘Sorolla a través de la luz’. Una muestra inédita para el público de Patrimonio Nacional y para los seguidores del artista: su obra original dialogará por primera vez con recreaciones digitales, como una sala sensorial y otra de realidad virtual.

Patrimonio Nacional, Fundación Museo Sorolla, Museo Sorolla y Light Art Exhibitions organizan este proyecto comisariado por Consuelo Luca de Tena, exdirectora del Museo Sorolla, y Blanca Pons-Sorolla, bisnieta del pintor. Está incluido en el programa de actividades de la conmemoración del centenario de la muerte de Sorolla (1863-1923), declarado Acontecimiento de Excepcional Interés Público (AEIP) por el Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte.

El Palacio Real de Madrid acogerá en cuatro salas un total de 24 obras originales, en su mayoría procedentes de colecciones particulares y expuestas por primera vez. La selección representa los temas favoritos del pintor, como el mar, los jardines, los retratos y las escenas costumbristas. Las obras dialogarán con recursos tecnológicos de vanguardia mediante espectáculos de imagen y sonido que intensificarán la percepción del espectador.

Horarios y precios

El tiempo medio para visitar “Sorolla a través de la luz” es de una hora. El acceso se realiza en pases cada 15 minutos a través del Arco de Santiago, en la confluencia de las calles Requena y Bailén. Los horarios son de 10h a 20h de lunes a sábado y de 10h a 18h los domingos. En todos los casos el último acceso se produce 75 minutos antes del cierre de la exposición.

El precio de la entrada general es de 12 euros de lunes a miércoles, de 14 euros los jueves y viernes y de 16 euros los sábados, domingos y festivos. La entrada reducida tiene un coste de 2 euros menos respecto a la entrada general. Además, los niños de hasta 5 años de edad entran gratis y se establecen precios especiales para grupos.

Ficha técnica

  • Organizan Patrimonio Nacional, Fundación Museo Sorolla, Museo Sorolla y Light Art Exhibitions
  • Comisariado: Dª Consuelo Luca de Tena y Dª Blanca Pons-Sorolla
  • Palacio Real de Madrid. Salas de exposiciones temporales Génova
  • Del 17 de febrero al 30 de junio de 2023
  • Horarios: Lunes a sábados: 10.00 a 20.00 (último acceso 18.45); Domingos: 10.00 a 18.00 (último acceso 16.45)
  • Entradas a la venta en www.entradas.com/artist/sorolla-exposicion/