Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
94
Jazz Voyeur Club
C4
95
Teatre Principal
F1
Shopping
96
Carmina
E2
97
Chocolate Factory
E1
98
Colmado Santo Domingo
F3
99
Fine Books
F4
100
La Casa del Mapa
E3
101
Món
E3
102
Plaça Major Artisan Market
G2
103
Quesada
D3
Típika
(see 45)
104
Vidrierias Gordiola
F3
8
Information
Consell de Mallorca Tourist Office (see 50)
Plaça Major & Around
Museu Fundació Juan March
GALLERY
(
www.march.es/arte/palma
; Carrer de Sant Miquel 11; 10am-6.30pm Mon-Fri, 10.30am-2pm
Sat)
This 17th-century mansion gives an insightful overview of Spanish contem-
porary art. On permanent display are some 70 pieces held by the Fundación Juan March.
Together they constitute a veritable who's who of mostly 20th-century artists, including
Miró, Juan Gris (of cubism fame), Dalí and the sculptors Eduardo Chillida and Julio
González.
After starting with the big names, the collection skips through various movements in
Spanish art, such as that inspired in Barcelona by the Dau al Set review (1948-53) and
led by Antoni Tàpies. Meanwhile, in Valencia, Eusebio Sempere and Andreu Alfaro
were leading the way down abstract paths. Sempere's
Las Cuatro Estaciones
(1980) re-
flects the four seasons in subtle changes of colour in a series of four panels with inter-
