Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
Address: Calle de Santa Isabel, 52, 28012 MadridWebsite: www.museoreinasofia.es Uploaded artworks: 30 Uploaded artist: 8
Museo Reina SofÃa, Queen Sofia Museum, El Reina Sofia, or simply The Sofia). The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992 and is named for Queen Sofia of Spain. It is located in Madrid, near the Atocha train and metro stations, at the southern end of the so-called Golden Triangle of Art (located along the Paseo del Prado and also comprising the Museo del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza).
The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain's two greatest 20th century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador DalÃ. Certainly the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's great painting Guernica. The Reina SofÃa also has fine collections of the works of Juan Gris, Joan Miró, Julio González, Eduardo Chillida, Antoni Tà pies, Pablo Gargallo, Lucio Muñoz, Luis Gordillo, Jorge Oteiza, José Gutiérrez Solana and many other significant artists.
Foreign artists are few, but there are works by Robert Delaunay, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Jacques Lipchitz, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, cubist still-lifes by Georges Braque and a large work by Francis Bacon.
It also hosts a free-access library specializing in art, with a collection of over 100,000 books, over 3,500 sound recordings and almost 1,000 videos.
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Dali, Salvador
The Enigma of Hitler
Date: 1938 Movement: Surrealism Theme: Allegory Technique: Oil on canvas
Dali, Salvador
Figure at a Window
Date: 1925 Movement: Surrealism Theme: Genre Technique: Oil on canvas
Tápies, Antoni
Personadge
Date: 1950 Movement: Art Informel Theme: Portrait Technique: Mixed technique
Dali, Salvador
Study for the Premonition of Civil War
Date: 1936 Movement: Surrealism Theme: Abstract Technique: Charcoal
Dali, Salvador
Imperial Monument to the Child Woman
Date: 1934 Movement: Surrealism Theme: Abstract Technique: Mixed technique
Gris, Juan
The Guitar in front of the Sea
Date: 1925 Movement: Cubism Theme: Abstract Technique: Oil on canvas
Gris, Juan
Violin and Guitar I.
Date: 1913 Movement: Cubism Theme: Abstract Technique: Oil on canvas
Dali, Salvador
Cubist Self-Portrait
Date: 1923 Movement: Surrealism Theme: Self Portrait Technique: Other/Unknown
Dali, Salvador
Still Life by Moonlight
Date: 1926 Movement: Surrealism Theme: Abstract Technique: Oil on canvas
Dali, Salvador
Four Fishermen's Wives of Cadaqués
Date: 1928 Movement: Surrealism Theme: Abstract Technique: Oil on canvas
Rivera, Diego
Vendedora de Flores
Date: 1949 Movement: Mexican Realism Theme: Genre Technique: Other/Unknown
