Original work: Study of a Gypsy Woman, Circa 1906. Author: Nonell y Monturiol, Isidro (Barcelona, 30 November 1872–Barcelona, 21 February 1911).Owner: Masaveu Collection. © of the reproduction/photograph: Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson.
Organised by: Museo Nacional del Prado
Curator: Javier Barón
Art work loaned for the exhibition: Study of a Gypsy Woman. Author: Nonell y Monturiol, Isidro (Barcelona, 30 November 1872–Barcelona, 21 February 1911). Year: Circa 1906. Owner: Masaveu Collection
The Masaveu Collections is taking part in the Art and Social Change in Spain exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado with the loan of two works: Study of a Gypsy Woman by Isidro Nonell and La dame à l’aigrette by Anglada Camarasa.
This exhibition is a unique opportunity to learn how artists depicted the profound social changes that occurred in Spain between 1885 and 1910.
Curated by Javier Barón, chief curator of the Department of Nineteenth Century Painting at the Prado, the exhibition invites visitors to discover the fascinating if relatively short-lived (barely twenty-five years around the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) phenomenon of social art. Barón was also the curator of the Masaveu Collection: Spanish Nineteenth-Century Painting. From Goya to Modernism exhibition held at the FMCMP Centre in Madrid between 2019 and 2023.
The themes chosen to articulate the sections of the exhibition cover different aspects of contemporary life, such as industrial and women’s work, education, illness and medicine, workplace accidents, prostitution, etc. Other themes with a longer tradition in art also form part of the selected works on display.