Impressionists and Expressionists
Monet, Derain, Kirchner — what the Prado lacks.
Kyle Magnuson from Los Angeles, United States — CC BY 2.0 · Didier Descouens — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tibor Kovacs — CC BY 2.0 · Emilio J. Rodríguez Posada — CC BY-SA 4.0
With three or more Madrid days: emphatically — it completes the tale, filling centuries its neighbours miss. With two: Prado and Guernica first, non-negotiably. Practical note: it opens Mondays when both close — the famous Monday-itinerary rescuer.
Two hours walk the full chronology without fatigue — its density is kinder than the Prado's, its size measured. The café and garden make the perfect mid-point rest.
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The Thyssen is the Golden Triangle's third corner with a singular story: the greatest private collection assembled in the twentieth century — two generations of Thyssen barons buying Western art's summits piece by piece — purchased whole by Spain in 1993, gaining exactly what fills the Prado's gaps. Its strength is being all art history in one building: Italian and Flemish primitives, through the Dutch Golden Age, to the Impressionists and German Expressionists — the Prado's absentees — on to Picasso, Hopper and Lichtenstein. An astonishing density of first-rank names in every era. Its chronological order from the top floor down makes the visit a smooth art-history lesson — and comparing it with its neighbours is Madrid's great pleasure: an old-masters morning at the Prado, a modern afternoon here.
Monet, Derain, Kirchner — what the Prado lacks.
Hotel Room — the finest Hopper outside America.
Ghirlandaio's famous profile — the collection's icon, perhaps the Renaissance's most famous portrait.
Paseo del Prado 8, 28014 Madrid