Nicholas Nixon. The Brown sisters (1975-2022)
JUN.05.2025 ──────── AUG.24.2025

Nicholas Nixon
The Brown Sisters, 1975, 2022
Fundación MAPFRE Collections. © Nicholas Nixon
Exhibition
JUN.05.2025 ── AUG.24.2025
Where
Recoletos Exhibition Hall
Paseo Recoletos 23, 28004 Madrid
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December 25th, January 1st and 6th
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December 24th and 31th, January 5th: 11 am – 3 pm
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Nicholas Nixon (Detroit, 1947), a key figure in contemporary photography, is recognized both for his work and for his teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art until 2017. The Brown Sisters (1975-2022), the protagonist of this exhibition, is one of the references of modern photographic portraiture. The series brings together the annual portraits that Nixon took of his wife Beverly Brown (Bebe) and her three sisters – Heather, Mimi and Laurie – since 1975, always in the same order, facing the camera, with natural light and using a large-format camera.
Far from any artifice, The Brown Sisters (1975-2022) reveals, in its reiteration, the pulse of time: aging, emotional transformations and the permanence of family ties. Through a constant structure and a deeply empathetic gaze, Nixon constructs a visual narrative about intimacy and emotional ties. Each image, shot with a rigorous and sober technique, acts as a cut in the continuity of life, showing both the traces of experience and the emotional evolution of its protagonists. The formal simplicity of the images contrasts with the emotional strength of the project as a whole: an intense aesthetic experience that transcends the personal to offer us one of the most moving representations of the passage of time in the history of art.
This work, acquired by the Foundation in 2007, marked the beginning of Fundación MAPFRE’s photography collections. With the image of the year 2022 Nixon concluded the series, so this will be the first time it can be seen in Spain in its definitive version.
Curator: Carlos Gollonet (Chief Curator of Photography at Fundación MAPFRE).

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Online sale will be available from May 27th.
Individual Ticket (includes audioguide)
- Allows to visit The Brown Sisters (1975-2022), José Guerrero. Concerning Landscape and Felipe Romero Beltrán. Bravo.
- GENERAL ADMISSION: €5 / REDUCED ADMISSION: €3 (Beneficiaries of reduced admission).
- FREE ADMISSION:
- General Free Admission (€0): Mondays (except holidays) from 2 pm to 8 pm.
- Free admission for eligible groups: Click here to see the groups entitled to free entry and how to obtain these tickets.
- AUDIOGUIDE: All individual ticket types (general, reduced, free) include audioguide.
- The audioguide is exclusively available for the exhibitions José Guerrero. Concerning Landscape and The Brown Sisters (1975-2022).
- The audioguide is accessible online via a QR code available at various points in the exhibition hall. To access it, you will need a mobile device with internet access. If you do not have an active mobile internet connection, you can use the free Wi-Fi available in the exhibition hall.
- IMPORTANT: To avoid disturbing other visitors, please use the audio guide with headphones, which are not included in the ticket price. For reasons of sustainability, we recommend that visitors bring their own. In case you need to purchase them (1€, jack type), the option is offered during the online ticket purchase process. They can also be purchased at the ticket office (keeping the corresponding queue) and at the bookshop.
- If you choose not to use headphones, please keep your cell phone close to your ear and at a low volume.
Commented Tour
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- Hours: Wednesdays and Thursdays: 5-8 pm | Fridays and Saturdays: 12-2 pm and 5-8 pm. | Sundays and Hollidays: 12-2 pm.
- The commented tour is not offered in august.
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- AUDIOGUIDE: All individual ticket types (general, reduced, free) include an audioguide.
- During this season, the audioguide is exclusively available for the exhibition José Guerrero. Concerning Landscape and The Brown Sisters (1975-2022).
- The audioguide is accessible online via a QR code available at various points in the exhibition hall. To access it, you will need a mobile device with internet access. If you do not have an active mobile internet connection, you can use the free Wi-Fi available in the exhibition hall.
- IMPORTANT: To avoid disturbing other visitors, please use the audio guide with headphones, which are not included in the ticket price. For reasons of sustainability, we recommend that visitors bring their own. In case you need to purchase them (1€, jack type), the option is offered during the online ticket purchase process. They can also be purchased at the ticket office (keeping the corresponding queue) and at the bookshop.
- If you choose not to use headphones, please keep your cell phone close to your ear and at a low volume.
Collaborating Entities
- If you belong to any of the entities that collaborate with Fundación MAPFRE, you must obtain your reduced ticket (€ 1) at the ticket office in the room.
Audioguides (headphones)
- All individual ticket types include an audioguide.
- The audioguide is accessible online via a QR code available at various points in the exhibition hall. To access it, you will need a mobile device with internet access. If you do not have an active mobile internet connection, you can use the free Wi-Fi available in the exhibition hall.
- IMPORTANT: To avoid disturbing other visitors, please use the audio guide with headphones, which are not included in the ticket price. For reasons of sustainability, we recommend that visitors bring their own. In case you need to purchase them (1€, jack type), the option is offered during the online ticket purchase process. They can also be purchased at the ticket office (keeping the corresponding queue) and at the bookshop.
- If you choose not to use headphones, please keep your cell phone close to your ear and at a low volume.
Group Visit
- It’s mandatory for the Group Visit to have a guide or person in charge. To request a guide from the Foundation, ask please for information and rates to: cultura@fundacionmapfre.org
- The group must be made up of a minimum of 6 pax. a maximum of 11 pax.
- The use of an radio-guiding system is mandatory for the visit. If the group does not have its own, you must add it (€1/pax) during the online purchase process.
- Hours: From Tuesdays to Fridays: 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm and 6 pm. Maximum duration of the visit: 60 min.
- The formalization of the booking implies the acceptance of the Rules for the visit, especially those indicated for “Group Tour”.
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Families
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IMPORTANT: Before you start the ticket buying process, we strongly recommend that you take into account the following observations:
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- The purchase of tickets presupposes the acceptance of the Rules for the visit. We recommend reading it before entering the room.
- If your visit is scheduled for the late afternoon, please remember that the room is cleared 10 minutes before closing time (8 pm from Tuesday to Saturday; 7 pm on Sundays and holidays).
- Fundación MAPFRE is not responsible for the rates, schedules and other information applied on the websites of other entities where tickets for their exhibitions can be purchased.
- If the online ticket purchasing process is cancelled, suspended or cut off, please contact our support telephone numbers: +34 915 816 100 (attention exclusively during the opening hours of the exhibition hall).
- Other rates for eligible groups (44 KB)
If you need more information about the exhibition, you can see it here.
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