Joaquín SorollaEspaña, 1863–1923Escena de café
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Anverso: Escena de café La escena aparece dividida por una mampara dispuesta en diagonal, que permite ver la disposición de las figuras a ambos lados. En el izquierdo, se distingue una figura masculina de espaldas, representado hasta media espalda. Frente a él, varias figuras. En el lado derecho, varias figuras, femeninas y masculinas, muy confusas por el rayado de la mampara. Reverso: Pareja en el restaurante En el centro de la hoja, un hombre y una mujer sentados a una mesa. Están vistos de perfil y ambos apoyan los codos sobre la mesa inclinando el cuerpo hacia delante, en actitud de conversar. El hombre lleva chaqueta oscura, y la mujer vestido ceñido a la cintura y sombrero adornado con telas y plumas. En el centro, tras la mesa unos rasguños que pueden indicar un perchero con diferentes prendas y a la derecha, una columna sobre un pequeño murete, de la que vemos parte del fuste y la basa.
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En la vida de Joaquín Sorolla
La vida entera1900
Grand Prix at the Paris Universal Exposition
“Sad Inheritance”, a huge canvas of crippled children bathing in the sea at Valencia under a monk’s supervision, brought Sorolla his greatest official recognition, the Grand Prix and a medal of honour, and his exhibit as a whole earned him nomination as a Knight of the Legion of Honour. After this picture he never returned to so overtly social a theme.
1906
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.
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.
