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FOUNDATION JUAN MARCH,
in conjunction with the
Pinacothèque de Paris
Founded in 1955 by the Spanish financier Juan March Ordinas, the Fundación
Juan March is a family–run institution, patrimonial and operative exercising its
activities in the field of science and human sciences. It is a private entity, geared
to the public sector, that organizes art exhibitions, musical concerts, cycles of
conferences and seminars. Its headquarters, based in Madrid, contains a
musical and theatrical library that is open to the public. Through the Juan March
Institute for Studies and Research, it promotes teaching, specialized research
and co-operation between Spanish and foreign scholars.
The Foundation also owns the Museo de Arte Abstracto in Cuenca, as well as
the Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani in Palma de Mallorca, where it shows
permanent collections as well as temporary exhibitions. It also organizes an
educational program for school children and university students, for families and
various other groups.
The Fundación Juan March owns a collection of contemporary Spanish art
started in the early sixties of the past century, made up of more than 1.600
works. The core pieces of that collection are exhibited in the museums in Cuenca
and Palma, mentioned above, as well as in the Foundation’s headquarter in
Madrid. Originally made up of works by artists who mostly belonged to the
generation working in the Spanish abstract tradition in the nineteen fifties
(Manuel Millares, Antoni Tàpies, Eusebio Sempere, Gustavo Torner, Gerardo
Rueda, Fernando Zóbel, Antonio Saura, Eduardo Chillida, etc.), it also contains
such artists as Joan Miro or Julio Gonzales, and it houses artists of the younger
generation of Spanish artists from the eighties and nineties.
The Foundation also owns a complete edition of Francisco de Goya’s etchings,
from the artist’s four major series: "Caprices", "Disasters of war", "Nonsense or
Proverbs ".
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