Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Estudios de figuras
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Where is “Estudios de figuras” 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
A la izquierda, mujer de perfil, dibujada hasta la cintura. Tiene los brazos acodados en algún elemento no dibujado, juntando las manos frente al rostro. Todo el dibujo está realizado con trazos rápidos y nerviosos, menos la zona de la cabeza, donde se ha aplicado el lápiz en plano. En el centro del papel, hacia la izquierda, busto de mujer casi de frente. Lleva sombrero pequeño decorado en la banda con una cinta. El rostro está sombreado en el lado derecho. Encima del busto de mujer, comienzo de apunte de cabeza masculina, en el que no se ha representado el rostro.
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- Image: Sorolla Museum — In Copyright
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.
