Until next Sunday, January 12, 2025 continues in CentroCentro de Madrid (Plaza Cibeles, 1) the exhibition Seventy Great Masters of the Pérez Simón Collection, which brings together some of the most valuable pieces of this remarkable set, Today, it is considered one of the most important private collections in the world. The exhibition offers a careful selection of works, most of them never seen in Madrid before.
The tour is articulated in three periods: Ancient and early modern masters, including works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Bronzino, Rubens, Greco, Murillo, Anton Van Dyck, Canaletto, Tiepolo and Goya, among others; XIX century, with pieces by the most important painters of the moment, among them Turner, Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Pissarro, Gauguin, Sisley, Monet, Renoir, Joaquín Sorolla and Ignacio de Zuloaga; and From the Avant-garde to the present art, where artists are present such as Eduard Munch, Tamara de Lempicka, Fernand Léger, Rothko, René Magritte, Alex Katz, Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara.
The businessman and collector Juan Antonio Pérez Simón was born in Asturias, from where he emigrated to Mexico with his parents as a child. Its collection includes more than 4,000 pieces of painting, sculpture, drawing, decorative arts and manuscripts. More information at this link.
