Bunch of Grapes / The Three Bunches, 1936–1944. Author: MALLO, Maruja (Viveiro, Lugo, 1902–Madrid, 1995). Owner: Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Collection. © of the photographic reproduction: Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson, 2024. Author of the photograph: Marco Morilla
Organised by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Curator: Dª Patricia Molins
Works from the FMCMP Collection loaned for the exhibition: Bunch of Grapes / The Three Bunches, 1936-1944. Author: Maruja Mallo (Vivero, Lugo, 1902-Madrid, 1995). Owner: FMCMP Collection.
Maruja Mallo (Ana María Gómez González, Viveiro, 1902–Madrid, 1995) is one of the most significant artists of twentieth-century Spanish art. She was also a leading figure of the Generation of ‘27 and the first to present a female worldview from an unprecedented perspective, that of the modern woman.
This retrospective exhibition is organised chronologically, taking as its main reference point her series of paintings. These works, alongside her drawings and personal archive, chart the trajectory of her career: from the magical realism and surrealist compositions of the early years to the geometric and fantastical configurations of her later period.
The Three Bunches, the work loaned for the occasion, is a drawing connected to the Living Natures series and a study for the paintings of the same title that she subsequently produced, returning to the sketches from life she made in Galicia in 1936.