• January 2021 Agreement closed

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The Carmen Thyssen art collection will remain in Spain, exhibited at the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, for the next 15 years, after the Council of Ministers approved the agreement of the Ministry of Culture with the collector. The contract provides for the payment of 6.5 million euros per year in exchange for the permanence and exhibition of 427 works, including

Mata Mua

, by Gauguin, the piece

whose withdrawal in 2020 was the great order

of Thyssen in the negotiation.

The payment of the State will go to the societies of the collector and her daughter in Andorra. During the negotiations, the great difficulty for the agreement consisted in Thyssen's expectation of having his residence in Andorra recognized by the tax authorities and of enjoying a special tax regime. Baroness Thyssen's stays in Spain for reasons related to the Thyssen Museum Board of Trustees will not be counted in the count of inspectors investigating tax fraud.

In 1992, Thyssen changed his residence to Andorra to benefit from its lax taxation

. This prevents him from exceeding 183 days in his country.

In total, 1,040 million will enter the accounts of the Thyssens who, in exchange, will give works by Canaletto, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Renoir and Rodin, among others.

The Board of Trustees of the Foundation also retains sovereignty

to decide on the lease of the work, which may generate more benefits for Thyssen.

Negotiations for the renewal of the rental began nine years ago and was about to be closed in 2019, when José Guirao was directing Culture.

"Then we had closed the agreement at 90%", explained in EL MUNDO the former minister Ángel Acebes, one of Carmen Thyssen's lawyers.

«

Pedro Sánchez dismissed Guirao by surprise

, and Rodríguez Uribes' new team wanted to catch up on this matter.

The crossings of impressions of the outgoing and incoming minister on the

Mata Mua

affair

complicated the talks.

And somehow we had to start over.

Now, just at the moment when Uribes leaves the Government and Miquel Iceta is the new Minister of Culture, the agreement, more or less known since January, has arrived on time.

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