The Wounded Foot, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 1909
Joaquín Sorolla, portrætJoaquín SorollaSpanien, 1863–1923

The Wounded Foot

1909 · Painting · 109.2 × 99.7 cm

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The colored reflections of late afternoon light animate this beach scene and actively define the forms, from the injured child's shoulder to the liquid sea and the figures playing in the water. The sun's highlights on the hurt child's hand, the sand around her foot, and her companion's hat draw the viewer's attention to the injured limb. While on the beach at Valencia, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida rapidly painted a group of pictures including *The Wounded Foot.* Like the Impressionists before him, Sorolla worked outdoors to capture the momentary effects of light, water, and people in motion. This painting's casual snapshot-like cropping, which cuts off the arm of the child at the left, gives the viewer the same sense of immediacy, as if he or she has accidentally happened upon an impromptu exchange between two children on the sand.

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78.PA.68

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Kilder

Imens i livet hos Joaquín Sorolla

Hele livet
  1. 1907

    Post: vocal of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones científicas

  2. 1908

    Meets Archer Huntington

    Large exhibitions in Germany and London met with more restraint than the Paris show, but in England Sorolla met Archer Milton Huntington, who made him a member of the Hispanic Society of America in New York and invited him to exhibit there.

  3. 1909

    New York show: 195 of 356 paintings sold

    The exhibition at the Hispanic Society of America comprised 356 paintings, 195 of which were sold. Sorolla spent five months in America and painted more than twenty portraits.

  4. 1911

    Contract with Huntington for a series on Spain

    In Paris Sorolla signed a contract with the American magnate and patron Archer Huntington for a series of paintings on life in Spain. The major commission of his career, it dominated his last years.

  5. early 1911

    Second US visit: St. Louis and Chicago

    Sorolla visited the United States a second time and showed 152 new paintings at the Saint Louis Art Museum and, a few weeks later, 161 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

  6. 1911–1919

    Through the provinces of Spain to paint from life

    Huntington had envisioned a history of Spain; Sorolla preferred a “Vision of Spain” and finally images of the regions of the peninsula, “The Provinces of Spain”. He painted all but one of the huge canvases en plein air, travelling to Navarre, Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, Elche, Seville, Andalusia, Extremadura, Galicia, Guipúzcoa, Castile, León and Ayamonte and posing models in local costume.

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