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.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Museum text in Spanish
Vista del interior de un café o restaurante. En primer plano, una mesa a la que están sentados cinco comensales, dos hombres y tres mujeres. De izquierda a derecha, vemos en primer lugar a una mujer, ligeramente de espaldas a nosotros, cortándose su figura por el fin de la cartulina. Está tocada con sombrero de ala levantada coloreado en negro. A su derecha, un hombre que vemos completamente de espaldas, en primer plano, sentado en una silla de respaldo alto. A continuación, una mujer de perfil, vestida con falda y blusa y sombrero con detalle coloreado en rojo. A su derecha un hombre que vemos de frente, sólo la cabeza, asomando tras el hombre descrito anteriormente. La última figura es una mujer de la que prácticamente sólo vemos el sombrero, azul, con detalles en rojo. Al fondo, detrás de la mesa descrita, debe haber otra, ya que detrás del hombre que vemos de frente se ve un adorno de un sombrero femenino. Dos figuras masculinas de pie al fondo de la composición, uno a la izquierda y otro a la derecha.
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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.
