Fi and Jim wanted to do something before getting on their plane to Paris this afternoon so we went to this museum not knowing what to expect. It is across the road from the Prado so we had seen the signs for it's Heroine exhibition yesterday.
What a fabulour treat it was! The Heroine exhibition was great. It was spread over two museums so I went to see the rest of the show after we delivered Fi and Jim to the Metro to the airport. I just had to see the Frida Kalho portrait featured on the advertising. It is a great one featuring a very mean looking black cat behind her left shoulder.
The T-B museum has two parts: his and hers. He was a German baron whose grandfather started collecting and he and his father continued obsessively. She was married to a film star who died and later, in the 1980's, married the baron who gave her lots of his art works and infected her with the collection bug. Their collections run parallel but hers, being later consists of peripheral artists whose works fill in the gaps and gives artists who don't have big names a chance to strut their stuff: often just as good as the big name artists' work.
I recommend putting aside a whole day to enjoy it.
Tomorrow we leave Spain to start our visits to friends in Denmark and UK. It has been a great holiday here and in Portugal.
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