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Item Number: 134515
Title: Coleccionar arte : Obras de la Fundacion Francisco Godia
Author: Cano, Ignacio (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788499591780
Description: Sevilla: Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, useo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, 2014. 28cm., pbk., 144pp. illus. Spanish text. Summary: The works from the Foundation have been displayed in other museums in Spain. However, this is the first time that such a comprehensive selection of pieces from all sections of the collection, including Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque pieces which have never before left the four walls of the Foundation. Two Romanesque virgins open the exhibition, accompanied by a delicate altar crucifix from the 14th century, Gothic carvings of saints and four Gothic panels, notably Pentecostés (Pentecost) by Lluís Borrassà. The Renaissance collection is well represented by the sculpture of the Rey mago (Wise man) by Felipe Bigarny and by the painted panels of María Magdalena (Mary Magdalene) by Juan de Borgoña and San Cristóbal (St. Christopher) by Hieronymus Bosch. Two recent acquisitions, Bodegón (Still life) by Juan van der Hamen and San José con el Niño (St. John with the Child) by Francisco de Zurbarán, illustrate two different facets of the Baroque period. Six pieces from the 15th to the 18th centuries from workshops in Manises (Valencia) and Barcelona serve as ambassadors for one of the most important sections of the collection, namely ceramics. The piece En el hipódromo (In the hipodrome) by Ramon Casas, which nicely sums up his work as a portrait painter, the modernity of open-air painting and the nature of bourgeois collections serves as an introduction to the room where all the essential 20th century pieces can be found. In this huge room, displayed in a mirror-like manner, there are pieces by Sorolla, Canals, Nonell, Sunyer, Barrau or Mir contrasted with pieces by other artists such as Picasso, Julio González, Joan Miró, Togores, Domínguez or De la Serna in order to show the two artistic movements which lived alongside one another in the first half of the 20th century. On the one hand, you can see pieces by artists which embraced modernity and all of the related concepts and which built up their career outside of Barcelona. On the other hand, we have pieces collected by the Catalan bourgeoisie which were formally a departure from 19th century style, but which were not an absolute break from the previous traditions. The exhibition closes with the Retrato de Georgette (Portrait of Georgette) by René Magritte and the still life by one of our most internationally-acclaimed contemporary artists, Miquel Barceló.
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