From Goya to Goldin: new museum puts Spanish city of Cáceres on the art world map

A new museum housing the vast contemporary art collection of the German-born collector and dealer Helga de Alvear in the southern Spanish town of Cáceres will be inaugurated today by the King of Spain, Felipe VI, and Queen Letizia.

De Alvear has given her entire collection of 3,000 works to the region of Extremadura. The opening exhibition of around 200 works, organised by José María Viñuela, the curator of the Helga de Alvear Collection, includes pieces by Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, Doris Salcedo, Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, Wassily Kandinsky and Pablo Picasso. A rare edition of Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos (1799) aquatint and etching prints given by the artist to his friend D. Evaristo Pérez de Castro—considered a reference point for Modern art—will also go on show.