01 de Apr 2007 - 31 de Jul 2007
The drawing collection of Rafael de Penagos was acquired at the same time that the museum broadened its interest to the decisive world of the graphic illustration in a time in which it led the profound change of image and identity present in modern societies. The museum also acquired an important collection of José Gutiérrez Solana, whose value not only relied on his own intrinsic quality and offering a complete walkthrough of the frequent iconography of Solana, but also the fact that it comes from a French collection. The latter showed the interest that the artist awoke in the international context. That was how Dibujos españoles del siglo XX. Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE was presented. It was a drawing collection that, even though it was open to new incorporations, it showed which were the interests of artworks in paper and the Spaniard art of this century.