Room 2

This room brings together four figures of the modernity that is still present in contemporary painting and sculpture today, and that, in the case of Spain, had to be foreign. Paris first of all, and New York after the Second World War, were regarded as the cultural capitals of the Western world. Juan Gris, Carafe et bol, 1916, is a bastion of cubism known as “synthetic” (let us not forget that synthesising is one of the fundamental means of artistic abstraction). Julio González was a leading figure in “drawing in space”, something that broke away from the tradition of sculptural volume. Both Miró and Dalí hold a unique position on the path leading beyond reality set in motion by André Breton and surrealism. Le Perroquet, painted in 1937, is part of Miró's particular fantastic imaginary, tinged with the apparent ingenuity associated with childhood. While Sin título (Retrato de Luli Kollsman), 1946, is a highly representative work of the oneiric landscapes so characteristic of Salvador Dali.