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From February 27 to June 2 2024
For the first time, the museum is devoting a retrospective to a Spanish woman artist, Isabel Quintanilla (1938-2017), one of the key figures of contemporary realism.
The exhibition features around 100 works spanning the artist’s entire career and including her most important paintings and drawings. Many have never previously been seen in Spain as they are principally housed in museums and collections in Germany, a country where she was widely recognised in the 1970s and 1980s. Quintanilla lived and worked during a period in Spain when women artists lacked the status and recognition accorded to their male counterparts, an issue that she herself confronted in her public statements with the aim of defending the significance of her work and that of her female colleagues.
Isabel Quintanilla’s painting is the result of an absolute mastery of technique and of skill acquired at different art schools but above all the consequence of a lengthy and ongoing working process.
Location
Name of place: Museo Nacional Thyssen - Bornemisza
Address: Paseo del Prado, 8, 28014 Madrid
Telephone number: 917 911 370
Opening hours: Monday: closed. Tuesday to Friday and Sundays: 10:00h to 19:00h. Saturdays: 10:00h to 21:00h
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