María del Carmen Rosario Soledad Cervera y Fernández de la Guerra, Dowager Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva (german: link=no, María del Carmen Rosario Soledad Freifrau von Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon; born 23 April 1943), popularly known as Carmen "Tita" Cervera or Carmen "Tita" Thyssen, is a Spanish socialite, and

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and collector.

Biography

Cervera was born on 23 April 1943 in

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, the daughter of Enrique Cervera Manent and his wife, María del Carmen Fernández de la Guerra Álvarez (d.

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, 22 February 1992). She was

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in 1961. She married firstly, as his fifth wife, on 6 March 1965

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, secondly, in 1975 , divorcing in 1978, and thirdly as his fifth wife, at Daylesford,

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, Gloucestershire, on 16 August 1985,

Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza Hans Heinrich August Gábor, Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon (13 April 1921 – 27 April 2002), an industrialist and art collector, was a Dutch-born Swiss citizen with a Hungarian title and heir to a German fortune, a long-time resident of Spa ...

. None of her marriages had issue, but she had a son born

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, Alejandro (b.

, 24 July 1980), with Manuel Segura. Hans Heinrich adopted her son, known as Alejandro Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva. As a widow, Carmen Cervera has also adopted two twin baby girls (born in 2007 in United States), called María del Carmen and Guadalupe Sabina in July 2007. In 2013 and 2016 Cervera was exposed by the

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for using complex offshore structures to gain tax advantages. Her spokesman stressed that she uses tax havens primarily because they give her "maximum flexibility" when she moves art from country to country.

Art collection

She has been an art collector since the 1980s. Items from her collection can be seen at: * the

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in Madrid, which includes 200 works from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection * the

Carmen Thyssen Museum The Carmen Thyssen Museum (Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga) is an art museum in the Spanish city Málaga. The main focus of the museum is 19th-century Spanish painting, predominantly Andalusian, based on the collection of Carmen Cervera, fifth wife of ...

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, which opened in 2011. Loans to other museums have been proposed, including a projected arts centre at Nuevo Baztan near Madrid. Díaz de Tuesta, M. José (31 May 2007)
Del Thyssen a Nuevo Baztán
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'' In 2012, she sold a valuable painting by English artist

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, '' The Lock''. The painting made a world record price for this artist, as it had done when acquired in 1990.

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