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Historic Loan Deal
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http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=17205
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7 months, 2 days, 20 hours agoIn Madrid, the director of the Reina Sofia Museum, Manuel Borja-Villel, has made an agreement with Miguel Zugaza, that states 20 prints by Goya will go to the Reina Sofia, from the Prado, on a long term loan. This is controversial because the royal decree made in 1995 states that the Prado owns Spain's national art collection up to 1881 (Picasso's birth) and the Reina Sofia has art after 1881. The prints that are being loaned were made between 1799 and 1810 which elongates the spirit of the 1995 agreement and reorders a central theme of Spain's art historical conventions (theme that modernism started with Picasso). The work still belongs to the Prado, however, and is merely on loan. The Reina Sofia wanted the Goya's because the museum believes that Goya is a key part of understanding 20th century art.
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