The Pau Casals collection at the Gran Hotel

Paintings and sculptures by Catalan artistscollected by the musician.

The Cultural Centre of the "la Caixa" Foundation, situated in the old Gran Hotel building in the plaza de Weyler in Palma, will house from April 28 to June 27, 2004, the exhibition called "Pau Casals en el escenario del arte. La colección de Vil·la Casals". The exhibition shows a selection of paintings and sculptures by Catalan artists from the end of the XIX century and beginning of the XX that were collected by the musician Pau Casals (1876 - 1973) in Vil·la Casals, his house on the beach of Sant Salvador in El Vendrell (Tarragona).

Pau Casals built that house in the summer of 1909, spending long periods there until 1939, when he was forced into exile and never returned. With a view to preserving the legacy that the musician had in Catalunya, in 1972 Pau Casals and his wife Marta Montañez created the Pau Casals Foundation, that was opened in 1974 with the headquarters in Vil·la Casals.

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Date of publication: 26/04/2004

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