Portraits. Masterworks from the Centre Pompidou

Through January 6 of 2013, the Fundación Mapfre, in Madrid, presents the exhibition entitled Portraits. Masterworks from the Centre Pompidou, an exhibition that includes 80 works of art by some of the great masters whose works are included in the collections of the Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Pompidou (MNAM-CP) in Paris. This selection of portraits will serve as a base to address the role of this genre in the various artistic movements that surfaced throughout the Twentieth Century and the beginning of the Twenty-First Century.

Divided into five main sections—The Mysteries of the Soul, Self-Portraits, In Light of Formalism, Chaos and Disorder or the Impossible Permanence of Being, and After Photographs—the exhibition will cover a chronological period that begins with the portrait of Erik Satie, created by Suzanne Valadon between 1892-1893, and ends with the work entitled The Moroccan by John Currin, in 2001.

Curated by Jean-Michel Bouhours, curator at the MNAM-CP, the exhibition will include important works by Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Henri Matisse, Robert Delaunay, Antonio Saura, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miró, and Amedeo Modigliani, among others.