In a joint project with the Juan March Foundation and the Ayala Foundation, the Prado will present the exhibition “The Future of the Past. Fernando Zóbel and the History of Art”. This exhibition, open until March 2023, is built around the author's sketchbooks in which, starting from the classic copy, he ends up building his own abstract imagery.

In the words of one of its curators, "no other 20th century author undertook such a systematic study of the masters of the past." Zóbel, a Spanish painter born in the Philippines, worked intensively on the paintings in the Prado National Museum and founded the Cuenca Museum of Abstract Art.