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MADRID, SPAIN - 2021/09/29: (from left to right) Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, Carmen Calvo and Borja Thyssen attend the Tribute to Spanish art historian and museologist Tomas Llorens at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum. Tomás Llorens, an art historian and curator who became a key figure in the history of several major Spanish institutions, has died at the age of 85. Llorens was the first director of both the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, and later worked at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, also in the Spanish capital, as chief curator. Throughout, Llorens championed modern and contemporary art under the long shadow of Francoism. (Photo by Atilano Garcia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)