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Spain Will Pay Heiress Carmen Cervera $7.9 Million a Year to Keep Her Art Collection in the Country for the Next 15 Years
Works by Rodin, Gauguin, and Van Gogh are part of the $1 billion collection.
Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. Photo by Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty Images.
The Spanish culture ministry has made a deal with the art collector and socialite Carmen Cervera that will see her collection of some 400 artworks remain in the country for the next 15 years.
The artworks, which include paintings and sculptures by artists including Brueghel the Elder, Vincent Van Gogh, and Auguste Rodin, have been valued at around €1.04 billion ($1.3 billion). They will remain provisionally at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, where they have been on loan since 1999.
More than 400 works are housed at the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid Photo: Pablo Casares © 2014
The Spanish government has negotiated a deal to keep the prestigious Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection in Spain. The new arrangement struck with Baroness Carmen Cervera the widow of the industrial tycoon Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza, who died in 2002 means that more than 400 works housed at the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid will remain in Spain. The collection includes works by Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Degas, Rodin, Matisse and Picasso.
The Spanish culture ministry says in a statement: “The [culture] minister has managed to agree a solid contract lasting 15 years, with the option for the State to purchase the collection at the end of that period. The annual fee is €6.5m a year for a set of paintings and sculptures with a value of €1bn.”