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Balenciaga and Spanish Painting

Published on , by Philippe Dufour

The famous designer proved a worthy successor to the great Spanish masters, in a summer exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum.

Exhibition: "Balenciaga and Spanish Painting", in Madrid. Balenciaga and Spanish Painting
Exhibition: "Balenciaga and Spanish Painting", in Madrid.
© Philippe Dufour
The stage is set right from the first room: an Apostle's Head by Vélasquez, a Saint Sebastian by El Greco and Cardinal Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga by Goya eye the visitor up and down, in the presence of two dresses in flaming red. This is the beginning of a circuit dotted with masterpieces of Spanish…
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