A cheesemaker’s unbelievable collection of 120,000 artworks and pieces of ephemera will be sold to the Spanish state:
. The museum’s board of trustees had previously approved the acquisition, which is the largest in the institution’s history.
The archive is currently housed in Lafuente’s cheese factory in Heras, just outside the northern coastal city of Santander. Selections from the collection are currently on view at thebuilding in Santander. The plan is for a permanent exhibition space for the archive in the city. Collector Jose Maria Lafuente, left, with designer Javier Mariscal and Port Authority president Francisco Martin on February 15, 2022 in Santander, Cantabria, Spain. Photo by Juan Manuel Serrano Arce/Europa Press via Getty Images.
Lafuente bought his first artwork, a screen print by Eduardo Arroyo, in 1992. His holdings include Cantabrian and Spanish artists like Maruja Mallo and Eduardo Westerdahl, plus a broader selection of documents and materials related to 20th-century avant-garde literary and artistic movements from Europe and Latin America.
There are letters, sketches, old exhibition catalogues, fanzines, posters, and other ephemera. Together, the works help provide context for the artists and the environments in which they produced their work.
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