Antonio Reyna Manescau Center

The Antonio Reyna Manescau de Coín Center is a place dedicated to the memory of the universal painter from Coín (1859 – 1937) in his hometown, which was inaugurated on November 29, 2019. A project promoted by the García Agüera Foundation and developed jointly with the Department of Culture of the City Council of Coín open to the public in dependencies of the old convent of Santa María de la Encarnación and near what was the painter's family home.

Currently, the permanent exhibition "Intimate and Universal" is being hung, directed and curated by José Manuel García Agüera. A rigorous, entertaining and didactic exhibition, with funds from the Hon. Coín City Council, the Malaga Provincial Council and mainly the García Agüera Foundation and private collections of friends of the foundation, relatives and admirers of the artist.

The rooms where the center is located, which is accessed from the beautiful courtyard of the property, house a wide collection of the painter's original work, photographs, documentation, research papers and publications, bibliography, personal objects and other contents of interest that will give the visitor needs information to better understand the life and masterly work of our countryman, a Master of 19th century painting.

In the second of the rooms of the center is the main work of the exhibition: "A ranch in Andalusia". It is a work that represents a typical Andalusian farmhouse, whose sketch was started during the summer of 1910 in Coín. The oil sketch of this same painting and the palette with which he painted this great work are the property of the Coín City Council and are on display together with the work.