Museum of Modern Art, Madrid
The Museum of Modern Art (Museo de Arte Moderno or M.A.M.) was the Spanish national museum dedicated to 19th- and 20th-century painting. It was set up in 1894. It closed in 1971, when its 19th-century collections were merged into those of the Museo del Prado, but housed at the Casón del Buen Retiro, and its 20th-century collections formed into the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo or MEAC), the predecessor of the present-day Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Museum of Modern Art, Madrid
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- Museum of Modern Art
- Founded
- 1894
- Headquarters
- Spain
- Dissolved
- 1971
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The Museum of Modern Art (Museo de Arte Moderno or M.A.M.) was the Spanish national museum dedicated to 19th- and 20th-century painting. It was set up in 1894. It closed in 1971, when its 19th-century collections were merged into those of the Museo del Prado, but housed at the Casón del Buen Retiro, and its 20th-century collections formed into the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo or MEAC), the predecessor of the present-day Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
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• Name — Museum of Modern Art • Native Name — Museo de Arte Moderno • Established — 1898 08 01 • Location — Paseo de Recoletos, 20 Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain • Type — Art museum
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1894
Museum of Modern Art, Madrid established.
1971
Museum of Modern Art, Madrid ceased.
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- 1.El Prado del en datos.
- 2.Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado. 1898.
- 3.Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado. 1951.
- 4.Fundación Amigos del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. 1959.
- 5.Cabeza femenina (la modelo Stella).
- 6.Estudio de desnudo femenino.
- 7.Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado. Picón, Jacinto Octavio.
- 8.Cabeza masculina de perfil con bigote y los ojos cerrados.
- 9.Paisaje de Panticosa.
- 10.Sala de Música.
- 11.Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado. Fortuny y Madrazo, Mariano.
- 12.Pablo Gargallo. La realidad en metal. Donación familia del artista, 2017.
- 13.Fundación Amigos del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. 1957.
- 14.Fundación Amigos del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. 1961.
- 15.Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado. 1933.
- 16.Shinobazu no ike Benten hokora, de la serie Vistas famosas de Edo (Kôto meisho). Entalladura, nishiki-e (más de tres tintas). Adquirido a la Nippon Hanga Kyōkai en 1936.
- 17.1916 es el año de edición.
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