Warhol, Pollock and other American spaces
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
21 October 2025 - 25 January 2026
Express, 1963
Oil, silkscreen ink and collage on canvas,
184.2 x 305.2 cm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bernemisza
Abstract Expressionist Landscape (with Clouds), 1951
Oil on canvas, 74.93 x 101.6 cm
Museo FAMM, Mougins (The Levett Collection)
Photo: Fraser Marr
Detail of Pan, Bassano in Teverina, 1980
Color dry-print, 38.1 x 30.5 cm
Collection of Larry Gagosian
© Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio
Photo: Rob McKeever
Courtesy Gagosian
Andy Warhol's fascination with Jackson Pollock is well known; his obsession with having one of his works in his extensive art collection, as well as the relationship between his famous car crash series and the notorious accident that ended Pollock's life one night in August 1956.
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is organising an exhibition which brings together the work of these two key names of 20th-century art, shown alongside that of other artists who were reconsidering issues relating to the new spatial strategies at this same time. Other artists include, among others, Audrey Flack, Robert Rauschenberg, Marisol Escobar, Cy Twombly...
Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock are two extraordinarily complex figures, seemingly very different but in fact united, like an entire generation of artists, by their interest in change in the pictorial tradition, spatial issues and a fascination with large formats.
MUSEO NACIONAL THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA
Paseo del Prado, 8. 28014, Madrid
