The collection of the married couple Carmen García Merchante and Jesús Martínez Guerricabeitia, which focuses on the political side of the emerging painting of the late Franco years and the Transition, was given to the Universitat de València by the collectors, in a gesture of patronage particularly worthy of note. The selection, curated by the art critic and museum director Juan Manuel Bonet, focuses precisely on the seventies, which saw the assassination of Carrero Blanco, the death of the dictator, the return of the exiles, and the first free elections.