The National Gallery and the Pompidou in Metz will exhibit two works from the Cau Ferrat Museum

Two works from the Museu del Cau Ferrat are traveling these days to two prominent European art galleries to take part in temporary exhibitions. These are the portraits of Modesto Sánchez Ortiz, the work of Santiago Rusiñol –which will be exhibited at the National Gallery in London– and that of Suzanne Valadon, by Miquel Utrillo –which will be exhibited at the Center Pompidou in Metz–.

The two works of the Museu del Cau Ferrat take part in two exhibitions of international projection. The Rusiñol portrait will be exhibited at the showAfter Impressionism, inventing Modern Art, which opens on March 25 and will be active until August 13. It is an exhibition that will present works by Cézanne, Klimt, Matisse, Mondrian or Picasso, among others, from some of the most important Modern Art collections on the planet, such as MoMA in New York, the Orsay and the Rodin in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Galleries in Edinburgh, the London Tate or the MNAC itself.

Portrait of Modesto Sánchez Ortiz is an oil on canvas, painted by Santiago Rusiñol in 1897. It presents the politician and journalist who was director of La Vanguardia between 1888 and 1901. Last week, the technicians of the Sitges Museums removed the painting from its usual place, in the Gran Saló del Cau Ferrat, to begin the journey to London.

On the other hand, the work of Miquel Utrillo will be exhibited at the exhibition Suzanne Valadon, a world of her own, presented by the Center Pompidou in Metz between April 15 and September 11. It is an anthology about the French artist, which will be exhibited at the MNAC in 2024. The exhibition will bring together works from different museums, such as the Louvre, the Orsay and the Orangérie in Paris or the Metropolitan in New York, among others.

Portrait of Suzanne Valadon is a drawing in charcoal pencil, sanguine and touches of pastel on paper that Miquel Utrillo made in 1891, when he shared experiences with the French artist during the years he lived in Paris.

A few weeks ago, the Museu del Cau Ferrat received the Penitent Magdalena, by El Greco, who for two months had participated in an anthology about Domenikos Theotokopoulos at the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts. The seven drawings by Maria Rusiñol and the two works by Lluïsa Denís have also returned to the Cau, which were exbited at the exhibition Feresa de silenci, at the Girona Art Museum.