Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Aparador
May one see it?
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Sorolla Museum
Madrid, Spain
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Spanish
En la zona superior, vista en escorzo de una pared en la que está adosado un aparador. Éste se compone de dos cuerpos, el superior abierto, con una repisa en la zona superior y en la inferior un espacio con escotaduras para colocar los paltos. La parte inferior es cerrada. A ambos lados del aparador, sendas sillas apenas esbozadas. En la mitad inferior de la hoja, un dibujo que quizás se corresponda con un detalle del mueble antes descrito. Tres formas semicirculares parecen alojar objetos, el de la izquierda de forma cuadrada y apilados. Bajo estas formas, dos líneas horizontales y bajo ellas se ha rayado la superficie breve y verticalmente.
Sorolla Museum
Particulars
Meanwhile, in the life of Joaquín Sorolla
The whole life13 April 1889
Daughter born: María Sorolla García
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.
8 November 1892
Son born: Joaquín Sorolla García
12 June 1895
Daughter born: Elena Sorolla García
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.
