Carmen Thyssen Collection

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Discover an exciting journey

Barons Carmen andBorja Thyssen-Bornemisza have reached an agreement with the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport to lease part of their collection to the museum. Itestablishes that a wide selection of international works will remain to beexhibited in this museum for the next 15 years, with a purchase option at theexpiration of the lease, with an annual rental price of 6.5 million euros. As aresult, the museum has installed a new display of this collection in itsgalleries on the ground floor, accounting with its own entrance at the main hall.This new location and presentation will allow the collection to berediscovered, now with a more coherent, global vision. The display ischronological, starting with 17th century Dutch painting and concluding with20th century art.

Image 1 : Paul Gauguin, Mata mua (In olden Times) (details), 1892 Carmen Thyssen Collection

Image 2: Claude Monet, The house among the Roses (details), 1925 Carmen Thyssen Collection

Image 3: Camille Pissarro, Routede Versailles, Louveciennes, Winter Sun and Snow (details), 1870 Carmen Thyssen Collection

Image 4: Jan Brueghel I, The garden of Eden (details), hacia 1610-1612 Carmen Thyssen Collection

Image 5: Robert Delaunay, PortugueseWoman (Large Portuguese Woman) (details), 1916 Carmen Thyssen Collection

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