The Museum of Modernisme in Barcelona (MMBCN) is reopening its doors for the exhibition "Paris-Barcelona", a large show focusing on nine outstanding women in the artistic scene of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
With more than 300 works, most of them pictorial, as well as sculptures, furniture and decorative arts on display, the exhibition offers a new vision of the relationship between the two capitals: Paris and Barcelona. The tour begins with models such as Madeleine de Boisguillaume, Stéphanie Nantas, Clo-clo, Júlia Peraire and Germaine Gargallo and concludes with the female vision of artists such as Suzanne Valadon, Georgette Agutte, Lucie Cousturier and Olga Sacharoff. It nonetheless attempts to create a dialogue between the models and muses of the day and the artists who immortalised them, such as Ramon Casas, Santiago Rusiñol, Toulouse-Lautrec or Alphonse Mucha.
The exhibition features works from the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, Cau Ferrat in Sitges, Víctor Balaguer Library-Museum, AMYC Foundation and other private collections.
The insllation has been organised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the gallery, the cultural enterprise of the Pinós-Guirao family.
The presention is accompanied by a publication that reviews the presence of women in the artistic and cultural environment at the turn of the century. The articles highlight the lives of these women, who in most cases have been silenced or little explained.