The ‘Raimundo de Madrazo’ exhibition travels to the Meadows Museum in Dallas

The exhibition ‘Raimundo de Madrazo’ travel to Dallas Meadows Museum which depends on the School of Arts of the Southern Methodist University, after its premiere at the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid, where it was visited by more than 100,000 people.

The American art gallery will host the exhibition from February 22 to June 21. This is Raimundo de Madrazo’s first retrospective in the United States.

Thus, it is curated by Patricia Manzano and Amaya Alzaga and covers the international career of Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, a painter who achieved success during the Belle Epoque era for European and American collectors and museums.

This exhibition project, the result of a collaboration between the Mapfre Foundation and the Meadows Museum in Dallas, brings together around 75 works that have been loaned by international museums and private collectors.

“It allows an approach from his early years in Madrid to his emergence in the salons of Paris and the Americas of the Golden Age. And the Meadows will be the only venue for the exhibition on the American continent.“explains the art gallery.

Along with the works that were exhibited in Madrid, the Meadows Museum will hang two new works in Dallas. One of them is ‘Leaving the Church’ (around 1870), a painting in which Madrazo accentuated the contrasts between social classes by bringing together elegant young people with beggars asking for alms, thanks to his mastery of color and textures.

The other is ‘Fortuny’s House Garden’ (1872-1877), a composition that his brother-in-law Mariano Fortuny began and that Madrazo retouched years later due to the unexpected death of the former in 1874 when he was only 36 years old. Madrazo added the figure of his sister Cecilia.

“The Meadows Museum is honored to present this historic exhibition dedicated to Spain’s most influential academic painter and arbiter of taste. Our long-standing collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE has made it possible to present to Texas audiences the full scope of Madrazo’s career and bring together an extraordinary body of work, most of which has never been shown outside of Spain,” said Meadows Museum director and holder of the Linda P. and William A. Custard Centennial Chair at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, Amanda W. Dotseth.