A temporary loan from the artist’s grandchildren—Alejandra, Aurelio, and Claudio—has made it possible to dedicate a monographic space to Torres-García within the Modern Art Collection. In the historiography of 20th-century art, classicism and the avant-garde have often been cast as contradictory poles. From this perspective, crossing from one to the other can only be understood as a rupture, almost with the moral weight of a religious conversion. This explains the difficulty faced by historians—militant defenders of that bipolar model—in comprehending how a classicist artist such as Torres-García could evolve into an avant-garde figure. The purpose of this room is to illustrate that connection.