New Collections: Saul Steinberg, at Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain, February 24 – June 8, 2025
Exhibitions
New Collections at Museo Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Artists’ archives and document collections are essential in understanding both their creative context and the interest and motivations of those who assembled them. Sketches, correspondence, photographs, written texts and other materials that belonged to the artists or the people near them help us to learn more about their lives and shed light on their most personal concerns.
The museum is now presenting six sets of documents, some of them associated with recent acquisitions, on the painter Eduardo Zamacois; the photographer Alphonse Guiard and his son, the painter Adolfo Guiard; the photographer Felipe Manterola; the photographic archive of the Patricio Echeverría S.A. factory; the illustrator Saul Steinberg; and the painter and engraver María Franciska Dapena.
Their recent addition is the outcome of donations made by their heirs and other private collections, the latest in the series of donations and bequests that have historically enriched the museum’s collections.