The collection starts with the generation artists in the fifties who made a real leap forwards in the Spanish avant-garde, breaking out of the artistic isolation of the post-war period. It includes some of the fundamental figures in Spanish abstraction, like Pablo Palazuelo and José Guerrero. The El Paso Group, established in 1957 in Madrid, is well represented through Rafael Canogar, Luis Feito, Manuel Millares, Martín Chirino and Antonio Saura. There are also artists from the Catalan school such as Albert-Rafols Casamada, Josep Guinovart and Joan Hernández Pijoan, as well as Valencian avant-garde artists from this period such as Juan Genovés and Manuel Mompó, and other contemporary artists such as Lucio Muñoz. In the mid-sixties, various experimental movements began to merge with each other. There was a return to different forms of figuration, represented by artists such as Rafael Canogar and Eduardo Arroyo. The figurative work of these years includes that of Eduardo Úrculo, with his powerful use of flat colours, Luis Gordillo, Alfredo Fraile and José Luis Fajardo.
The collection is topped off with a selection of painters from the 1990s like José María Sicilia, Juan Manuel Broto, Miguel Barceló, Miguel Angel Campano and Soledad Sevilla, and younger artists like Uslé, Ciria, Murado and Carlos Franco. Recent years have seen the addition of other key figures in Spanish figurative realism such as Antonio López, Daniel Quintero, Carmen Laffón, Guillermo Muñoz-Vera and Guillermo Pérez-Villalta. The sculpture section contains outstanding works by important figures like Arroyo, Berrocal, Canogar, Martin Chirino, Julio López Hernández, Pablo Palazuelo and Eusebio Sempere, to complement the richness of the painting collection.
