Learn about one of modernism’s best known artists
Within the Pueblo Canario plaza in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria city, theMuseo Néstor gallery displays a large number of artworks by Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre, one of the most famous Canary Islands artists and theirmain modernist painter. The gallery holds many of his most important paintingsand portraits and also his stage and costume design work.
Gran Canaria museum designed by Néstor himself
he Museo Néstor hold the artist’s most famous series of paintings called the“Poema del Mar” and “Poema de la Tierra”, but the surrounding Pueblo Canarioplaza is also the artist’s work. Néstor designed it as a space for art and tourismand it is one of his great works. Along with the Parador hotel at Cruz de Tejedathis architectural project by Néstor de la Torre was completed by his brotherMiguel after his death.
