The Bottle of Anís del Mono

Juan Gris · 1914

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Museo Reina Sofía

Madrid

Guernica is here, at the size Picasso painted it, and it does not photograph. You have to stand in front of it.

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Guernica
Pablo Picasso, 1937. Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. It is one of his best-known works, regarded by many art critics as the most moving and powerful anti-war painting in history. It is exhibited in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

The Great Masturbator
Salvador Dalí, 1929. The Great Masturbator (1929) is a painting by Salvador Dalí, painted during the surrealist movement. It is currently displayed at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

The Bottle of Anís del Mono
Juan Gris · 1914
The Anisette Bottle is a 1914 painting by Juan Gris, now in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. It shows a bottle of anisette, specifically the Spanish brand Anís del Mono, with the names of Badalona, Madrid and Paris, all linked with the leaders of the Cubist movement, namely Gris himself, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

Garrote vil (Garrotte)
Ramon Casas · 1894
Garrote vil (Garrotte) is an oil on canvas painting by Ramon Casas, produced in Barcelona, in 1894. It is held in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid.

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The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include collections of Spain's two greatest 20th-century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Certainly, the most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's painting Guernica. The Reina Sofía collection has works by artists such as Joan Miró, Eduardo Chillida, Pablo Gargallo, Julio González, Luis Gordillo, Juan Gris, José Gutiérrez Solana, Lucio Muñoz, Jorge Oteiza, Julio Romero de Torres, Pablo Serrano, and Antoni Tàpies. International art represented in the collection include works by Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Robert Delaunay, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Sarah Grilo, Damien Hirst, Donald Judd, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, René Magritte, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Nam June Paik, Man Ray, Diego Rivera, Mark Rothko, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Clyfford Still, Yves Tanguy, and Wolf Vostell.