The Bragales Collection has a splendid historical-artistic collection, a significant part of which is dedicated to post-war Spanish painting and the avant-garde movements carried out up to the final years of the dictatorship (the School of Paris, the School of Madrid, El Paso Informalism, Painting of the 1970s). A group of 42 figurative and informalist works of an abstract nature that speak an innovative creative language have been chosen for the current exhibition in the Mauro Muriedas Room. It is also necessary to highlight that these paintings embodied a pictorial testimony of the bleak artistic panorama of their time, a chronicle of the prohibitions and rigorous social control that anathematized freedom of thought during the dictatorship of the Franco regime. […] Jesús Alberto Pérez Castaños. Curator of the Exhibition.

About the collection

The Bragales Collection was born as a result of the work that Jaime Sordo has been developing as a collector of modern and contemporary art. Jaime, an engineer by profession and an entrepreneur by vocation, began his relationship with art in the 70s, when he acquired his first pieces while still a university student. That was the beginning of a passion that has not seen an end and that continues to drag him to national and international fairs, to galleries around the world or to receive awards such as the recognition of the collector of the year 2013 by the Institute of Contemporary Art (IAC).

His commitment to art and collecting led him to promote, together with a significant number of national collectors, the Association 9915 , of which he is President.

The Bragales Collection was born as a result of the work that Jaime Sordo has been developing as a collector of modern and contemporary art. Jaime, an engineer by profession and an entrepreneur by vocation, began his relationship with art in the 70s, when he acquired his first pieces while still a university student. That was the beginning of a passion that has not seen an end and that continues to drag him to national and international fairs, to galleries around the world or to receive awards such as the recognition of collector of the year 2013 by the Institute of Contemporary Art (IAC). His commitment to art and collecting led him to promote, together with a significant number of national collectors, the Association 9915, of which he is President.

Assembly. Salvador Ranero