A total of 72 works of art acquired by the Generalitat from the Lladró family have already arrived in the Valencian Community from Madrid and this Friday they are being deposited at the Palau de les Comunicaciones de València, according to sources from the Valencian Government.
This artistic collection, which has become the patrimony of the Valencians, will be exhibited over the next few months at the Palau de les Comunicaciones de València (the old Post Office building), where they can be visited free of charge before being definitively transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts. Arts.
Among the works that have arrived this Friday in the Valencian capital are five of the seven paintings by Joaquín Sorolla in the collection, including 'Valencian Labrador', a masterpiece by the Valencian painter who will be the image of the exhibition.
The Generalitat and the Lladró family formalized the agreement last November whereby the collection of 73 pictorial works by artists such as Juan de Juanes, Ribera, Pinazo, Sorolla and Zurbarán became part of the Valencian public heritage.
The acquisition was made for an amount of 3.7 million euros and includes works such as I am the bread of life by Joaquín Sorolla, one of the largest by the painter, 5.5 meters long, and The Virgin in Meditation of Zurbaran.
The Lladró collection began to be formed in the eighties by the will of the businessman Juan Lladró, who died in 2017, whose main adviser was Alfonso Emilio Pérez Sánchez, director of the Prado Museum between 1983 and 1991, who published the catalog of the work.
Lladró created the collection with the idea of making it available to the public and the company headquarters in Tavernes Blanques (Valencia) hosted the exhibition of the pieces from the collection, although with the sale of the company in 2017 the collection was removed from facilities and was stored in Madrid.
