Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Barca
May one see it?
Unknown
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
Barca vista de frente, varada en la playa. La barca tiene un gran mástil del que salen unos cabos a ambos lados, hasta la arena, donde hay una serie de figuras que los están sujetando. Dentro de la barca y a ambos lados, otras figuras. Parece que están colocando el mástil a la barca o desplegando las velas. En la zona derecha se ha marcado la incidencia del sol.
Sorolla Museum
Particulars
Meanwhile, in the life of Joaquín Sorolla
The whole life1906
Galerie Georges Petit: nearly 500 works
A one-man show at the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris — figures, landscapes, portraits, early works and recent sun-drenched beaches — eclipsed all his earlier successes. His productivity amazed critics, the show was a financial triumph, and it brought him the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour.
1906 · Award
Officer of the Legion of Honour
1907
Post: vocal of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones científicas
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.
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.
