Joaquín SorollaSpanish, 1863–1923Viajando
May one see it?
Unknown
Sorolla Museum
Madrid, Spain
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
In the museum's own words — in Spanish
En primer plano, en el ángulo inferior izquierdo, dos bustos masculinos de perfil a la izquierda. Uno de ellos lleva sombrero a la cabeza, flexible y de ala baja, mientras que el otro está descubierto. Sus cuerpos se cortan por una línea horizontal que puede indicar una un barracón o la parte descubierta de un barco, ya que tras ellos hay una pared con un vano rectangular dividido en dos cuadrados en los que se ha indicado por inscripción que hay luz, y en uno de ellos, el de la derecha, hay un tercer busto masculino de espaldas. A la derecha, espacio abierto donde se han representado al menos dos figuras esquemáticas (la de la izquierda con sombrero) y al fondo, línea de paisaje.
Sorolla Museum
Particulars
Meanwhile, in the life of Joaquín Sorolla
The whole life1908
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.
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.
