Nearly 100,000 people have visited Casas in Madrid

The exhibition Ramon Casas, a long yearned modernity at CaixaForum Madrid is beating all records and is about to reach the figure of 100,000 visitors. The exhibition opened on March 8 and will be the CaixaForum Paseo de Recoletos until 11 June.

Ramon Casas has placed itself among the major attractions of the exhibition season in Madrid. Until last Sunday, 95,422 people had visited the exhibition, the largest of the artist performed outside Catalonia. The exhibition is the same as it was in the Maricel Museum between November 16 and February 19 last, which received 40,000 visitors, a record in Sitges, albeit with some minor changes in some of the exhibits. Once close in Madrid, Ramon Casas, a long yearned modernity will travel to Palma de Mallorca, where it will also be exhibited at the CaixaForum in the Balearic capital. The exhibition is jointly organized by Sitges Museums, the National Museum of Art of Catalonia and Obra Social "La Caixa" in collaboration with the Government of Catalonia, Barcelona Provincial Council and the City of Sitges .

800 square meters of exhibition space at CaixaForum Madrid are a full stage to present the work of Ramon Casas in his time and context. The exhibition presents 200 works, including 145 paintings and drawings, 45 photographs and other media. Among the list of artists exhibited in addition to Casas himself, there will be artists like Toulouse-Lautrec, John Singer Sargent, Santiago Rusiñol, Julio Romero de Torres, Joaquín Sorolla, Joaquim Torres-García and Pablo Picasso, among others .

The works on display come from collections of some of the most important European art galleries such as the Musée Picasso from Paris, the Toulouse Augustinian Museum, the Fine Arts in Bordeaux, the Abelló Collection, the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, the Carmen Thyssen, the Prado Museum, the Reina Sofia, the Picasso of Barcelona, Bilbao Fine Arts, Fine Arts of Cordoba or the same Cau Ferrat and Maricel Museum.

CaixaForum has scheduled parallel activities, including a visit today for a coffee-gathering. Every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday there are guided tours.

Museums of Sitges has organized a cultural trip to Madrid on 2 and 3 June, which will visit this exhibition, as well as the samples exbibited by the Prado Museum, the Thyssen Foundation and Fran Daurel. Foundation. Those interested in enrolling in this trip can do so at the offices of Heritage Consortium of Sitges (tel. 93 894 03 64).