This is the first stage of an initiative taking place within the museum which aims to set up a dialogue (or confrontation) between the collections of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the Modern Art Centre. Entitled Meeting Point, this event will allow the collections and different sectors of the public to come together and will expand the meanings of the works and their creators.

Rembrandt and Paula Rego were the artists chosen to initiate this dialogue (Portrait of an Old Man, 1645 and Time – Past and Present, 1990) in an attempt to establish a narrative that brings a contemporary artist to this museum space for the first time. United by their approach to time, the works on display allow us to reflect on the way in which, in every era, artists have worked in different ways on the same timeless themes, in an endless questioning of the perplexities that arise in the face of life and death.

The development of this project and the enthusiastic support of the artist have allowed the original concept to be expanded with the loan of a Rembrandt drawing from the British Museum, a work that has never previously been seen in Portugal, and a study, held by a private collection, for the painting by Paula Rego. By a happy coincidence, these works are being shown at the same time as the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is exhibiting its collection of watercolours and drawings.

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian

Av. de Berna 45A
Lisboa 1067-001 Portugal
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Tuesday - Sunday
From 10am to 6pm

Related images
  1. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669). Portrait of an Old Man. Dated on the lower left: f. 1645. Holland, 1645. Oil on canvas. 128 x 112 cm. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Inv. 1489
  2. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669) attrib., A Seated Old Man And A Woman (Jacob E Rachel). Holland, ca. 1640-45. Pen and brown ink with brown wash, touched with white. 18 x 16.3 cm. On loan from the British Museum, London. Inv. 1861,0608.149
  3. Paula Rego (1935- )O Tempo ­ Passado e Presente (Time ­ Past and Present), 1990. Acrylic paint on marouflé paper and canvas. 183 x 183 cm. Centro de Arte Moderna, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Inv. 92P213