The treasures of the Kunstmuseum Basel, from tomorrow in Madrid – Terra Peru

The Treasures of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland), consisting of ten key paintings by Picasso, 104 works from its permanent collection and 62 from the private collections of Im Obersteg and Rudolf Staechelin, will be on display from tomorrow in Madrid, in three samples in the Museo del Prado and the Reina Sofia.

Let’s wait a little longer, until July to see at the Reina Sofía one of the key pieces of Gauguin, “Nafea Faa Ipoipo “(” When you marry? “), which is also the most expensive in history to have been sold by Rudolf Foundation Stechelin the Qatar Museums Authority over 300 million work (263.3 million of euros).

The presence of this painting is one of the main reasons to consider unrepeatable exposure Kuntsmuseum parts plus because the Swiss institution will never yield so many fundamental works and that has borrowed many parts not usually allowed.

The status of “unique” was highlighted during the presentation today at exposures that have been organized by the generosity of the Swiss museum, which decided her works after deciding its temporary closure for carrying out modernization work.

On the one hand, “White Fire. The modern collection of Kunstmuseum Basel “and” Collecting and modernity “which opens tomorrow at the Queen Letizia Reina Sofia and the other” 10 Picassos the Kunstmuseum Basel, “which opens Wednesday at the Museo del Prado.

“10 Picassos the Kunstmuseum Basel” is “the party” Picasso at the Prado director Miguel Zugaza, who wanted to receive the “Picassos over Basel” through the front door, in the central gallery view in the symbolic axis of the museum, where they appear “literally as an offering.”

Picasso becomes a walk in the Prado “with astonishing naturalness, as Paul for his house”, a distance of three axes. First, an essential retrospective of the artist, with masterpieces displayed chronologically representing each of their capitals stages.

In other axis, Picasso’s paintings, “as contemporary as classics” are relate to “face to face” with works by Titian, Tintoretto, El Greco, Veronese, Velázquez, Rubens and Goya.

“Here, the conventional time fades and arises from our strictly contemporary look new experience and unrepeatable. Few artists are able to maintain this dialogue, “according Zugaza.

After the contemplation of” The Two Brothers “and” Man, woman and child, “the” Cézannian “still life” Loaves and fruit “crosses with “The Burial of Christ” by Tiziano, gothic cubism “Amateur” is projected onto the Grecos of the altarpiece of Mary of Aragon, while “sitting Harlequin” (1923) meditates on “The story of Christ and the Centurion “Veronese.

” As in the ‘Quixote’, never really know where to begin the great stories, and this brings us here today is certainly one of them, “said Zugaza .

Also in terms of appreciation turned intervention director of the Reina Sofia, Manuel Borja-Villel, who noted that mounted two exhibitions plurality of readings about how collectors understand the history of art and relationships between collectors, artists, curators and museums.

“White Fire. The modern collection of Kunstmuseum Basel “is the main sign of Reina Sofia, which allows a chronological journey through 104 masterpieces, which had only 9 previously been in Spain.

With pieces created from late nineteenth century to the present, the exhibition explains the evolution of the art of the past 150 years, with movements such as symbolism, expressionism, cubism, purism, the Bauhaus, the “art brut”, surrealism, abstraction, constructivism, minimalism, German postexpresionismo, postwar American abstraction or “pop art”.

This story is mounted with artists such as Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger, Le Corbusier, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Munch, Kandinsky, Yves Tanguy, Hans Arp, André Masson, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Mondrian, László Moholy-Nagy, Gerhard Richter, Rothko, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Picabia or Steve McQueen.

The 62 paintings, 44 of the Im Foundation Obersteg and 18 Rudolf Staechelin Collection, exhibited in “Collecting and modernity” are in turn a little gem of art works. Of these, only three had traveled to Spain before.

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, Redon, Pissarro, Manet, Modigliani, Monet, Cézanne, Chagall, Soutine, Hodler, Jawlensky and Picasso works as “Absinthe Drinker”, “Women in the box” or “Harlequin mask,” are part of this treasure.

In the works of Gauguin already hanging in the Reina Sofía will join from July, the most emblematic of the loan from the Museum of Basel, “Nafea Faa Ipoipo” (When did you marry?) work.

On the future of the collection of Rudolf Staechelin, director of the Kunstmuseum said Foundation that manages it “wants to have the opportunity to see other options worldwide for their future. We are doing our best to return home, but do not know”.