Pérez Simón Collection Offers a Captivating Study of Spain's Masters

THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
By James Chute

San Diego Museum of Art executive director Roxana Velasquez and collector Juan Antonio Perez Simon at the museum with Salvador Dali's "The Ascension Of Christ" — Eduardo Contreras

CALIFORNIA---Juan Antonio Pérez Simón, the man whose name is on the title of the new exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art — “From El Greco to Dali: Great Spanish Masters From the Pérez Simón Collection” — was sitting on a bench at the museum, facing Joaquin Sorolla’s “Oxen in the Sea, Study for ‘Afternoon Sun’ ” (1902). Sixty-four paintings from his extensive, encyclopedic collection, representing five centuries of Spanish art, are on display at the museum through Nov. 6. [link]