Exhibition at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza from February 27to June 2, 2024. Up until now Isabel Quintanilla had not received therecognition she deserved as a prominent name on the Spanish art sceneof the second half of the 1900s. Beginning in the 1970s, her workswere frequently shown in various German cities and acquired by museums and collectors in that country, a fact that prevented her from beingbetter known in Spain. Indeed, half of the pieces on view here, andreproduced in this catalog, have been brought from Germany. Leticia de Cos has charted the course of Quintanilla?s career and life throughthe genres and subjects she explored. The artist?s still lifes combine classical arrangements with contemporary objects, such as a Duralexglass, a telephone or a sewing machine (her mother?s means ofproviding for her family), which recall a particular period of Spain?s past. Quintanilla painted experienced reality and much of her oeuvredepicts the spaces she lived in: the bedroom, the kitchen, thebathroom, the sewing corner and the artist?s studio. Although theseinteriors are nearly