Madrid. “I have always wanted to share my works with the public,” says businessman and art enthusiast Juan Antonio Pérez Simón, who is exhibiting 70 masterpieces until mid-January in Madrid, where he will soon open a museum that will house part of his impressive collection.
Van Gogh, Sisley, Picasso, Rubens, Goya, Monet, Renoir, Magritte and Rothko are painting heavyweights included in the collection of this discreet octogenarian, born in Spain but who has lived most of his life in Mexico.
A close friend of the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, Pérez Simón owns a total of about four thousand pieces (paintings, sculptures, drawings, manuscripts and decorative arts objects), a collection that has never been exhibited in its entirety in a museum, although some works They have been loaned to galleries around the world.
“I have been fortunate to be able to treasure this large number of works and I feel the responsibility of sharing them with the public,” Pérez Simón told AFP in a written interview.
The exhibition “Seventy great masters from the Pérez Simón Collection”, which is displayed at the Palacio de Cibeles, headquarters of the Madrid City Council, until the beginning of 2025, features masterpieces made from the 16th century to the present day, signed by artists who They range from El Greco to the American Alex Katz.
It is an exhibition that precedes the expected inauguration of a space dedicated entirely to the businessman’s collection, close to the other three great artistic institutions in the city: the Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía and the Thyssen-Bornemisza.
The details of the project are still under discussion, according to the municipality and the collector, but the new museum, which could open in 2025, will house about 200 works.
Pérez Simón will bear all the expenses, the city council specifies, while the 83-year-old millionaire promises that the loan “will be for a long period of time.”
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