Madrid, 24 June 2014. Opening at the Museo del Prado tomorrow, 24 June, is the
exhibition El Greco and Modern Painting, co-organised with Accíon Cultural Española
(AC/E). It will be officially inaugurated this afternoon by Her Majesty the Queen.
Sponsored by Fundación BBVA, it includes around 120 exhibits that reveal the
decisive influence which El Greco had on the origins of modern painting. Among the
works on display are the artist’s Laocoön and The Vision of Saint John, both
loaned from the United States and not included in the recent exhibition in Toledo,
Picasso’s The Burial of Casagemas and Cézanne’s interpretation of Lady in an
Ermine Wrap, to be seen in Spain for the first time.