Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani, Fundació Juan March

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• The Juan March Foundation's Museum of Spanish Contemporary Art reopened in 1997, with newly acquired modern paintings. The works represent one of the most fertile periods of 20th-century art, with canvases by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, and Juan Gris, as well as by Antoni Tàpies, Carlos Saura, Miquel Barceló, Lluis Gordillo, Susana Solano, and Jordi Teixidor. A room devoted to temporary exhibits was added to the restored museum. One series, for example, featured 100 Picasso engravings from the 1930s. The oldest and best-known work in the museum is Picasso's Head of a Woman, from his cycle of paintings known as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. These works form part of the collection that the Juan March Foundation began to amass in 1973.

• © Frommer's 2013

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Frommer's

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