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The Museums of Sitges opens doors to sketching

| 9 April 2019
Drawing is the leading role at the Museums of Sitges this spring, thanks to the exhibition " Del Modernisme a les Avantguardes". Drawings from the Mapfre Foundation collection , which brings together at the Maricel Museum 47 works by modern masters of modern art. On the occasion of this exhibition...view ›

Two Picasso paintings from Cau Ferrat travel to Malaga for an exhibition at the Carmen Thyssen Museum

| 3 April 2019
The Sitges Heritage Consortium loaned two drawings by Pablo Ruiz, Picasso froml Cau Ferrat to thwe the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga to participate in the exhibition Perversity:: fatal women in modern art (1880-1950) , which was inaugurated last Saturday and it will be possible to see until...view ›

The Maricel Museum opens doors to Fortuny, Rodin, Matisse, Dalí and the masters of modern art

| 28 March 2019
Marià Fortuny, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Picasso, Francis Picabia, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró are some of the names present in the exhibition From Modernisme to the Avant-garde. Drawings from the Mapfre collections , which opened on March 28 at the Maricel Museum and which is a...view ›

The Stämpfli Foundation receives four works by Michel Tyszblat and one by Hugh Weiss

| 25 March 2019
The extension of the Stämpfli Foundation has been accompanied by the incorporation of five new works that have entered its collection. This is a painting by the American Hugh Weiss and four from the French Michel Tyszblat, one of which, Ebrar , stars at the Piece of the Month, this Friday, March 29...view ›

The Stämpfli Foundation finalizes its project and opens its expanded facilities

| 22 March 2019
The Stämpfli Foundation christens its new facilities with a fresh selection from its collection and an exhibition of 25 works by Peter Stämpfli, the Swiss artist who, along with his wife, Anna Maria, has carried out the ambitious project of opening a contemporary art museum in Sitges. With its...view ›

The 'Galeria blanca' of Rusiñol and 'Platja de Sitges' by Miró i Argenter recover their light

| 19 March 2019
One of the oil paintings that Santiago Rusiñol painted in his first years in Sitges, Galeria blanca , and one of the most emblematic paintings by Joaquim de Miró i Argenter, Platja de Sitges (1895), have gone through the restoration workshop of the Heritage Consortium of Sitges, where the paintings...view ›

Fortuny, Rodin, Klee, Matisse, Picabia, Picasso, Dalí and Miró enter the Maricel Museum

| 13 March 2019
The ground floor of the Maricel Museum puts the red carpet to receive the works of some of the most important and well recognised artists of the second half of the 19th and the first haff the 20th centuries. Names such as Marià Fortuny, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Joaquín Sorolla, Pablo Picasso,...view ›

The sculptures by Pere Jou at Maricel are now accessible in 3D

| 11 March 2019
Las esculturas de Pere Jou, uno de los elementos artísticos más importantes de la fachada de Maricel, son accesibles en 3D gracias al proceso de digitalización llevado a cabo por iniciativa del Consorcio de Patrimonio de Sitges. Se trata de un conjunto de 24 piezas accesible desde la plataforma...view ›

The visits to the Palau de Maricel and the Parish propose a journey through the history of Catalan art

| 7 March 2019
The guided visits to the Maricel Palace and the Parish of Sant Bartomeu and Santa Tecla return this spring to the program of heritage activities and will be held periodically until the fall. Two of the most emblematic buildings of the town open to the public, on the initiative of the Sitges...view ›

Pere Izquierdo assumes the provisional direction of the Museums of Sitges

| 6 March 2019
The archaeologist and museologist Pere Izquierdo i Tugas (Gavà, 1963) has been appointed managing director of the Sitges Heritage Consortium, with provisional character until April 30. In this way, the job position, which had been vacant past February 15 for the retirement of Vinyet Panyella, who...view ›

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