¡Ajo!, Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, 1891–1895
Joaquín Sorolla, portraitJoaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923

¡Ajo!

1891–1895 · Drawing

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Where is “¡Ajo!” now? Collection: Sorolla Museum, Madrid. Unknown.

Sorolla Museum

Madrid, Spain

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

In this state since
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About the work

Museum text in Spanish

A la derecha, en primer plano, una mujer sentada en una silla, a la que vemos de perfil. Frente a ella, quizá sujetándolo, un niño sólo esbozado, que tiene el brazo extendido recogiendo algo que le da el personaje masculino sentado a la izquierda del dibujo.

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In the life of Joaquín Sorolla

The whole life
  1. 13 April 1889

    Daughter born: María Sorolla García

  2. 1890

    Moves to Madrid: large canvases for the salons

    The family moved to Madrid. For the next decade Sorolla concentrated on large canvases of orientalist, mythological, historical and social subjects for salons and international exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Venice, Munich, Berlin and Chicago.

  3. 8 November 1892

    Son born: Joaquín Sorolla García

  4. 12 June 1895

    Daughter born: Elena Sorolla García

  5. 1897

    “A Research”: the Prize of Honour in Madrid

    Two paintings linking art and science, “Portrait of Dr. Simarro at the Microscope” and “A Research”, won Sorolla the Prize of Honour at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. He showed his friend Simarro in the laboratory, catching the contrast between the reddish-yellow light of a gas burner and the weak mauvish light from the window.

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