MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Museo Barbier - Mueller Barcelona

Museo Canario

Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao

Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by North American architect Frank O. Gehry, is a magnificent example of the most groundbreaking architecture to have come out of the 20th century. From its inception in 1997, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s acquisition program has focused on art from the mid-20th century to the present, complementing the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s renowned holdings while establishing its own identity.

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Museo Nacional del Prado

The Museum offers masterpieces such as The Annunciation by Fra Angelico, Christ washing the Disciples’ Feet by Tintoretto, The Descent from the Cross by Rogier van der Weyden, The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch, and The Three Graces by Rubens; including also key works of Spanish art such as Las Meninas by Velázquez, Jacob’s Dream by Ribera and The Third of May: the Executions on Príncipe Pío by Goya.

Museo Picasso Barcelona

The Museu Picasso of Barcelona is the centre of information and background for the early years of learning of Pablo Picasso. Jaume Sabartés, his close friend ever since their youth and personal secretary from 1935 onwards, donated his own personal collection of Picasso paintings to the city of Barcelona. In this way, he became the driving force behind the creation of a Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the first anywhere in the world and the only one created while Picasso was still alive. In 1970, Picasso himself donated nearly a thousand more works that had been kept in his family’s Barcelona residence. As a result, the City Council made available the Palace next door, the Castellet. These works, together with 58 magnificent paintings that go to make up the Las Meninas series, made the Museu Picasso of Barcelona the not-to-be-missed central point for anybody interested in knowing more about the artist’s work.
Image: © Museu Picasso, Barcelona 2008
Foto: Ronald Stallard

Museo Picasso Málaga

Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

The MNAC embraces all the arts (sculpture, painting, objets d’art, drawing, engraving, posters, photography and coinage) and has the task of explaining the general history of Catalan art from the Romanesque period to the mid-twentieth century. In the case of the Romanesque and Gothic collections, this discourse is characterized by the Catalan provenance of most of the pieces, although, particularly in the Gothic, comparisons are made with art from other provenances. With regard to the Renaissance and Baroque collections, the works included lead to a more international discourse, with the work of great painters, such as El Greco, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Cranach, Rubens... The MNAC art collections from the end of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century are once again mostly made up of the work of Catalan artists, forming a discourse which explains Modernisme, Noucentisme and the Avant-garde, always taking into account all the arts.

Palacio Real de Madrid