María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco teaches Art History at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. She received the special PhD award for her thesis Aportaciones
 a la historia de los fondos del Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo (1987). She has curated exhibitions at the Museo Nacional de Reina Sofía, Fundación Mapfre, and the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, and for SEACEX. She has edited Juan Gris. Correspondencia
 y escritos (2008) and is the author of Arte español en Nueva York / Spanish Art in New York (2004) and Buscadores de belleza. Historias de los grandes coleccionistas 
de arte (2007, with C. Mack), among other publications.