The Carmen Thyssen Collection grew out of the historic Thyssen-Bornemisza family collection: its core consists of works from the family inheritance that were not part of the group acquired by the Spanish State in 1993. It was later enlarged by the purchases of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza and Carmen Thyssen and then by the Baroness alone, and today it is one of the most important private collections in the world.
Under a 2022 agreement with the Spanish Ministry of Culture, a wide selection of the collection remains at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza for fifteen years and is presented in a new installation on the museum’s ground floor. This catalog accompanies that new presentation.
The collection ranges from Old Masters such as Jan Brueghel the Elder‘s Garden of Eden and a portrait by Fragonard, through the four sculptures by Auguste Rodin commissioned by August Thyssen that started the family collection, to a large body of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Expressionist and North American painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by artists including Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Wassily Kandinsky and Robert Delaunay. It also reflects the Baroness’s own taste, above all her love of landscape painting and of movements in which color plays the leading role.
A handsome reference for visitors to the museum and for collectors of Impressionist and modern painting.
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