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d Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

The highlight of this museum, commonly Portrait II (1938)
referred to as the Museo Reina Sofía, of 20th- Joan Miró’s huge
century art is Picasso’s Guernica. There are, work shows
however, other major works by influential artists, elements of
including Miró and Dalí. The collection is housed Surrealism, but
was painted more
in Madrid’s former General Hospital, built in the than 10 years after
late 18th century. Major extensions, designed by his true Surrealist
Jean Nouvel, were inaugurated in 2005. The period ended.
Nouvel Building includes the Collection 3: From Nouvel
Revolt to Postmodernity, a library, a bookshop, a building
café and auditoriums that host various events
such as film screenings, lectures and concerts.

. Woman in Blue (1901)
Picasso disowned this
work after it won only
an honourable mention
in a national competition.
Decades later it was
located and acquired
by the Spanish state.

Landscape at
Cadaqués
Salvador Dalí was
born in Figueres
in Catalonia. He
became a frequent
visitor to the town
of Cadaqués, on
the Costa Brava
(see p220–21),
where he painted
this landscape in
the summer of 1923.

Key to Floorplan
Exhibition space
Non-exhibition space

Self-Portrait (Accident)
Alfonso Ponce de León’s
disturbing work, painted in
1936, prefigured his death in
a car crash later that same year.
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp568–9 and pp591–3

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