PRIVATE ART COLLECTION
An important private art collection includes works by Galician, Spanish, and international artists, encompassing paintings, graphic works, sculptures, ceramics, and more.
The catalogue spans from the 16th and 17th century Spanish schools to the 20th century, featuring artists such as Souto, Corredoira, Colmeiro, Bonome, Seoane, Maruja Mallo, Tino Grandío, Picasso, Dalí, Gregorio Prieto, Gómez de la Serna, Francis Bacon, Georges Braque, Matisse, Max Ernst, Zuloaga, and Kustodiev.
Miscellaneous collection of objects
This collection reflects a love for the past, with a great many items linked to specificpassions and interests: theatre, ballet, and set design; childhood memories; and an appreciation for music, craftsmanship, and the folk traditions of Galicia.
Dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, the items include toys, puppets, ceramics, pipes, photographs (both family records and those acquired for the collection), albums, postcards, and sheet music. It also contains a significant assembly of items known as ephemera. This includes paper dolls, collector cards featuring Galician landscapes, celluloid cards, calendars, programmes, menus, dance cards, memorial cards, devotional prints, Christmas cards, cigar bands, decorative borders, cigarette paper booklets, pop-up cards, embroidered postcards, stereoscopic views, children’s films, drawings for zoetropes, fold-outs, paper fans, and cardboard toy theatres of various sizes.
The significance of this ephemera collection is explicitly highlighted, as it is composed of striking elements that illustrate the mindsets, habits, forms, conventions, and customs of society at a particular point in time. These items capture details that do not usually appear in “formal” documentation, offering a unique and interesting perspective on the world.
It is noted that there are no known collections or pieces of these characteristics in Galicia; the largest such collections in Spain are held by the National Library and the Reina Sofía Museum.
