The Colección Banco Santander contains more than 1,000 works, including pieces by master painters and sculptors such as Zurbarán, Van Dyck, Tintoretto, Rusiñol, Picasso, Tàpies, Barceló and Chillida, an interesting decorative arts department and a numismatic collection exploring the monetary history of the Iberian Peninsula from the 2nd century BC to the present day.
The foundation is responsible for managing, preserving and promoting the collection. In 2020, the periodical review of the pieces in the collection and processing of loan requests from other institutions continued. To promote the Colección Banco Santander, the foundation offers a multimedia tool on its website that features different themed tours of the various works. During lockdown, special tours relating to the events were created, taking the public on a ‘journey’ through some of the works in the collection.
In collaboration with Factum Foundation, an organisation specialising in applying new documentation and digital reproduction technologies to art conservation, work is being carried out to digitalise El Greco’s La Anunciación in 3D. This project will allow one of the most iconic works in the Colección Banco Santander and one of the most representative pieces from the latter part of the artist’s career to be discovered, promoted and preserved. The final product will be a high-quality facsimile that will be hung in the very place for which the painting was intended: the Hospital de Tavera church in Toledo.
The foundation’s loan policy is intended to share knowledge of art with society by disseminating works from the Colección Banco Santander and supporting projects from other cultural institutions both in Spain and abroad.
José Guerrero
Paisaje
Exhibition: ‘José Guerrero: Pelegrinaje (1966-1969)’ Fundación Juan March, Palma de Mallorca 16.10.2019 – 18.01.2020
Martín Rico y Ortega
Patio del palacio ducal de Venecia
Exhibition: ‘Boldini y la pintura española a finales del siglo XIX. El espíritu de una época’ Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid 19.09.2019 – 12.01.2020
Manuel Benedito
Cléo de Mérode
Exhibition: ‘Boldini y la pintura española a finales del siglo XIX. El espíritu de una época’ Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid 19.09.2019 – 12.01.2020
Santiago Rusiñol
Barcas en el Sena
Exhibition: ‘Impressionism and Spanish Art’ Museum of Russian Impressionism, Moscow 10.10.2019 – 26.01.2020
Modest Urgell
Paisaje
Exhibition: ‘Modest Urgell, més enllà de l’horitzó’ Museu d’Art, Girona 19.12.2019 – 24.05.2020
Pablo Palazuelo
Panoplia I
Exhibition: ‘Laramascoto. 10011. Arqueología futura’ Museo ABC, Madrid 19.12.2019 – 08.03.2020
Pablo Palazuelo
Lunariae
Exhibition: ‘Laramascoto. 10011. Arqueología futura’ Museo ABC, Madrid 19.12.2019 – 08.03.2020
Julio Romero de Torres
Panneau
Exhibition: ‘Julio Romero de Torres’ Fundación Bancaja, Valencia 18.07.2019 – 12.01.2020
José Gutiérrez Solana
Taberna en Santander
Exhibition: ‘Julio Romero de Torres’ Fundación Bancaja, Valencia 18.07.2019 – 12.01.2020
José Gutiérrez Solana
El espejo de la muerte
Exhibition: ‘Humor absurdo: una constelación del disparate en España’ CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo 30.01.2020 – 04.10.2020
José Gutiérrez Solana
El físico
Exhibition: ‘Solana y la modernidad otra’ Palacio de San Esteban, Murcia 12.03.2020 – 19.07.2020
José Gutiérrez Solana
Máscara del caimán
Exhibition: ‘Solana y la modernidad otra’ Palacio de San Esteban, Murcia 12.03.2020 – 19.07.2020
José Gutiérrez Solana
Bodegón de la lombarda, el cobre, la coliflor y el repollo
Exhibition: ‘Solana y la modernidad otra’ Palacio de San Esteban, Murcia 12.03.2020 – 19.07.2020
José Gutiérrez Solana
Mujeres vistiéndose
Exhibition: ‘Solana y la modernidad otra’ Palacio de San Esteban, Murcia 12.03.2020 – 19.07.2020
José Gutiérrez Solana
Naturaleza muerta con violín
Exhibition: ‘Solana y la modernidad otra’ Palacio de San Esteban, Murcia 12.03.2020 – 19.07.2020
José Gutiérrez Solana
Carnaval en un pueblo
Exhibition: ‘Máscaras. Metamorfosis de la identidad moderna’ Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga 28.07.2020 – 10.01.2021
José Gutiérrez Solana
Gigantes y cabezudos
Exhibition: ‘Solana y la modernidad otra’ Palacio de San Esteban, Murcia 12.03.2020 – 19.07.2020
Antoni Clavé
La coupe
Exhibition: ‘Máscaras. Metamorfosis de la identidad moderna’ Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga 28.07.2020 – 10.01.2021
Julio González
Tête Rigueur
Exhibition: ‘Máscaras. Metamorfosis de la identidad moderna’ Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga 28.07.2020 – 10.01.2021
Joaquín Agrasot
Dos huertanos bebiendo vino
Exhibition: ‘Joaquín Agrasot. Un pintor internacional’ Palacio Gravina, Alicante 16.10.2020 – 24.01.2021