Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Estudio de composición, Elche
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Where is “Estudio de composición, Elche” now? Collection: Sorolla Museum, Madrid. Unknown.
Madrid, Spain
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
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- The museum
About the work
Museum text in Spanish
Sobre fondo de troncos de palmeras se recorta una figura masculina que avanza hacia el frente, cargada con racimos de dátiles. En primer término, en el suelo, varios cestos.
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- Image: Sorolla Museum — In Copyright
In the life of Joaquín Sorolla
The whole life1911–1919
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.
1917
Exhausted by the murals
By 1917, by his own admission, Sorolla was exhausted by the work on “The Provinces of Spain”.
1920
A stroke at the easel in his own garden
Sorolla suffered a stroke at his easel in his garden in Madrid while painting a portrait. He was paralysed for the last three years of his life and died on 10 August 1923 in Cercedilla.
