Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Encounter in Space 1899 Woodcut on paper, 18.5 x 25.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Munch Museum / Munch-Ellingsen Group / VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection The title Encounter in Space is that used by Gustav Schiefler in his…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Evening 1888 Oil on canvas, 75 x 100.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Munch Museum / Munch-Ellingsen Group / VEGAP, Madrid From very early on in his career Edvard Munch aimed to convey the angst and isolation characteristic of…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Marée basse à Varengeville (Low Tide at Varengeville) 1882 Oil on canvas, 60 x 81 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection In February 1882, Claude Monet left Poissy to travel to Dieppe and Pourville, on the Norman…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Cabane à Trouville, marée basse (The Hut in Trouville, Low Tide) 1881 Oil on canvas, 80 x 73.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©CCarmen Thyssen Collection This painting is not unusual in Monet‘s oeuvre: the high line of…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Maison entre les roses (The House among the Roses) 1925 Oil on canvas, 92.3 x 73.3 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen This painting depicts the front of the artist’s house in Giverny seen from the…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Conversation sous les oliviers (Conversation under the Olive Trees) 1921 Oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Succession H. Matisse / VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection Beneath their tranquil surface, Matisse‘s paintings often conceal a…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Canal du Midi 1898 Oil on cardboard mounted on plywood, 24 x 36 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Succession H. Matisse / VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection Canal du Midi belongs to a series of pictures painted by Matisse…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) La Clef des champs (The Key to the Fields) 1936 Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid “People who look for symbolic meanings [in my work] fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Le remorqueur (The Tugboat) 1922 Gouache on paper, 23.8 x 31.4 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The experience of warfare brought Léger face to face with a mechanised society and a world transformed by technology. On returning he abandoned…
Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Le disque (The Disc) 1918 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid As with many other artists of his generation, being conscripted during the First World War not only had a profound effect on Fernand…