Estructuras arquitectónicas

1911 · Drawing

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

Sorolla Museum

Madrid, Spain

The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.

In this state since: Sep 27, 2026
Source: The museum's own collection data

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About the work

In the museum's own words — in Spanish

El dibujo principal es un cuadrado inscrito en un rectángulo. En la parte superior, y tapando parcialmente el cuadrado, una pieza rectangular vista en tres dimensiones. En la zona izquierda del rectángulo, una pieza rectangular, que disminuye en ángulo convexo en uno de sus lados. En el lado opuesto del rectángulo parece que se ha intentado crear sensación de perspectiva mediante el rayado con tinta negra. Al lado de este dibujo, un esquema de una pieza acodada y perfil sinuoso. Parece que esta pieza se ha desarrollado justo debajo: Pieza acodada en cuyos extremos salen cuatro piezas circulares que se encajan una dentro de otra. Al lado de esta pieza, un cubo visto en perspectiva, con cuadrado en el centro, que quizá sea el desarrollo tridimensional del dibujo principal. En el reverso, un listado con ciudades y provincias de España y Portugal. Relacionado con los paneles que Sorolla pinta para la Hispanic Society de Nueva York.

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Particulars

Meanwhile, in the life of Joaquín Sorolla

The whole life

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.
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.

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