Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Saltando
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
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Spanish
A la izquierda, figura de la que sólo se ha representado la parte central del cuerpo, sin cabeza y sin pies, con uno de los brazos apoyado en la cadera. En el centro, figura femenina, con vestido amplio y los brazos extendidos a ambos lados del cuerpo. Tampoco se le han representado los pies. La última figura, a la derecha, también es femenina, vestida de igual modo que la anterior. Tiene el brazo izquierdo doblado delante de su cuerpo y el derecho extendido al lado. Según la inscripción, está saltando, tratándose así el dibujo de estudios de movimientos de chicas en la playa.
Sorolla Museum
Particulars
Meanwhile, in the life of Joaquín Sorolla
The whole life1906
Galerie Georges Petit: nearly 500 works
A one-man show at the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris — figures, landscapes, portraits, early works and recent sun-drenched beaches — eclipsed all his earlier successes. His productivity amazed critics, the show was a financial triumph, and it brought him the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour.
1908
Meets Archer Huntington
Large exhibitions in Germany and London met with more restraint than the Paris show, but in England Sorolla met Archer Milton Huntington, who made him a member of the Hispanic Society of America in New York and invited him to exhibit there.
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.
