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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

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Villahermosa Palace, site of the museum © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Villahermosa Palace, site of the museum © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Room in the museum © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Giovanni Bellini. 'Nunc dimittis'. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum © Turespaña
Paul Gauguin. 'Mata Mua' ('Once upon a time'), 1892 © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

Temporary exhibitions

Tradition and history of a legacy.

One of the best private collections of paintings in the world.

For several generations, the family collected a large number of works that today are exhibited in this museum. The architect Rafael Moneo remodelled and renovated the Villahermosa Palace, a building from the early 19th century, for this very purpose. It is said that this museum is the perfect complement to the Prado and Reina Sofía museums, because it bridges the gaps in their respective collections. There are splendid works, dating from the 14th century up to the masterly pop art of the 20th century. This is a wonderful place for a journey through the different "Isms" of art, starting with Impressionism. A new building with 18 rooms, which houses the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, has recently been added to the museum. Two of these rooms are used for temporary exhibits.

Essential works

Man with a clarinet

One of the masterpieces of Analytical Cubism
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The Harvesters

It is one of the most representative paintings in Pablo Picasso's work at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Seascape. L'Estaque

It is one of George Braque's few truly Fauve paintings.
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Harlequin with a mirror

This work is representative of the period in which Picasso began to use a new artistic idiom inspired by classical painting, with which he reinterpreted traditional subjects through Cubism.
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Self-portrait wearing a hat and two chains

One of Rembrandt's most exceptional self-portraits and a faithful mirror into his soul.
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Swaying dancer (Dancer in green)

With this work Degas introduces spectators into the world of the ballet which held such fascination for him.
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Still life with a Chinese bowl, Nautilus cup and other objects

This superb still life is a compendium of the work of the artist and exemplifies some of the most outstanding elements of his style.
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Still Life with Fruit

This canvas is regarded as one of the high points of Moillon's painting career.
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Racehorses in a landscape

This work is in the tradition of the outdoor horseracing scenes originating in England in the late 18th century.
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New York with Moon

This painting is the first one that the popular American painter Georgia O'Keefe made of the city of New York.
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Temporary exhibitions

Exhibition: Chagall

This is the first major retrospective dedicated to the Russian artist Marc Chagall in Spain.
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Visions of India. Paintings from the Binney collection at the San Diego Museum of Art

The Binney collection of Indian painting in the San Diego Museum of Art is one of the most important collections of South-Asian art from the 12th to the 19th centuries.
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Edward Hopper

This exhibition takes an in-depth look at Hopper's career from his early formative period through to his later mature production.
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Exhibition: Gauguin and the voyage to the exotic

This exhibition takes a look at the influence of exoticism on the creative language of the time through a selection of works by artists from the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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'En plein air'

This exhibition analyses the role of plein-air painting as the driving force of plastic renovation in the 19th century, with a hundred artworks ranging from 1780 to 1900.
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