Plácido Arango donates 29 works to the museum of asturian – The Universal

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The employer Plácido Arango (Tampico, 1931) donated 29 paintings to the Spanish museum of Fine Arts of Asturias. The works of 28 Spanish artists from the XV to XX , you will know at the end of January, when the institution finalized the donation.

Arango, a businessman based in Spain and a recognized patron of art, presented the donation as a tribute to their parents, asturian emigrants to Mexico. The gift was announced on the 28th of December, during a meeting between Arango and Javier Fernández, president of the Principality of Asturias.

the director of The Fine Arts, Alfonso Palacio, described the donation as "remarkable" and "a historic gesture momentous in the life of the museum". He, with Arango, was in charge of choosing the pieces for about a year and a half of work.

The last formality pending a meeting of the Board of trustees of the institution to accept the gift. Until that time, the employer has justified his silence on the title of the works "by institutional respect". It is known that the pieces are ancient and contemporary, and that three of them are so large that it cannot fit in the main headquarters of the museum, the palace of Velarde. Regarding the price, the Palace pointed out that it is "incalculable" because it works "out of market".

the quality Of the collection Arango was recorded with his two donations prior to the Prado Museum: the transfer in 1991 of 80 prints from the first edition of the Whims goyescos, and in 2015 of 26 works of Zurbarán, Goya, Francisco de Herrera ” The Lad, Peter Campaign, Valdés Leal, Luis de Morales and Antonio del Castillo.

When, last year, gave the last gift to the Prado, already was brewing operation in asturias. Within a thematic exhibition on the representation of the Virgin of the Immaculate conception in the museo del prado in madrid is now exhibit, and until the 19th of February, five works donated by Arango (two of Zurbarán, one of Mateo Cerezo, a Valdes Leal and another of Herrera el Mozo) next to an Immaculate Zurbarán property museum since 1956. Taking advantage of the occasion, the Prado museum has edited a catalogue in which we work out in detail the 26 recent contributions of the mexican.

Arango said Tuesday at the press of asturias, the reasons for their donations: "In the case of the Prado it was because of my emotional attachment and personal to this great museum. And Asturias is the land of my origins, I wanted so to pay homage to my parents," he said in reference to his time as president of the Patronage of the Prado and the land of their progenitors, Jerónimo Arango Díaz and María Luisa Arias Fernandez.

Arango is known to be a patron that has nothing to do with public recognition. In the Meadow has declined that their donations be grouped in any room with its name; it is expected that in Oviedo’s works are also integrated in the collection overall. "He has not raised any demand in any way," confirmed a Palace on statements gathered by The Nation.

As happened in the Meadow, Arango, nor has it established any compensation, except the right to usufruct for lifetime. Among other charges related to the world of art and culture, Plácido Arango was member of the Patronato Museo del Prado between 1986 and 2007; since that year until 2012 he was president, and then patron of Honor. He served as president between 1987 and 2006, the Prince of Asturias Foundation.

The Fine Arts of Oviedo has a collection of 15 thousand books, although the institution dates back to only 1980. Preserves works of El Greco, Goya, Oteiza, Titian, Veronese, Ribera, and Zurbarán.