Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Escena de café
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Where is “Escena de café” now? Collection: Sorolla Museum, Madrid. Unknown.
Madrid, Spain
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
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- The museum
About the work
Museum text in Spanish
Una mesa a la que están sentados dos hombres y una mujer. En primer plano, dos rectángulos que parecen indicar sillas. Los dos hombres están sentados en extremos de la mesa, representándose de perfil, mientras que la mujer está entre ellos, frente a nosotros. Ella lleva sombrero de amplia ala con decoración en la copa, pero ninguna de las tres figuras ha sido dibujada con detalle, todos ellos son rápidos apuntes, casi sólo de volúmenes. Sobre la mesa, dos vasos y una jarra. En el fondo, líneas verticales que podrían indicar distintos paneles en la pared.
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In the life of Joaquín Sorolla
The whole life1909
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.
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.
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.
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.
