Born in Valencia in 1863, he began his artistic studies in 1877 with sculptor Cayetano Capuz and later studied at the Fine Arts Academy in San Carlos. From a young age he was interested in open-air painting, with which he tried to capture Mediterranean lighting, both in the farmlands of Valencia and on the beach, just as the French Impressionists did. He finished his education in Paris and Rome. After returning to Spain in 1890, he settled in Madrid and began a trajectory marked by success, awards and important positions. Among his preferred subjects are Levantine waterfront scenes, always with human presence and expressed with an absolute prominence of light. He died in Madrid in 1923.
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The Castilian herdsman
This work was painted by Sorolla for the project entitled “The regions of Spain”, commissioned by Archer Milton Huntington to decorate the library of The Hispanic Society of America in New York.
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A Coruña Museum of Fine Arts (La Coruña) -
Boys on the beach
This is one of Sorolla’s characteristic light-filled scenes in the style which made this artist so popular.
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Prado Museum (Madrid) -
Fifth Avenue, New York
A work fully imbibed with modernity in both style and topic. It is interesting as it shows an “urban Sorolla” hardly seen in his large works.
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Sorolla Museum (Madrid) -
The Gardens at the Sorolla Family House
Between 1916 and 1920 Sorolla painted all aspects of the gardens at his Madrid home. He achieves technical and expressive freedom and a hugely important intimate vision in all his work.
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Palace of Pond, Royal Gardens in Seville
A work where Sorolla started his garden paintings which would later become some of his most important works.
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Sorolla Museum (Madrid)
Other highlighted works
- Under the awning, Zarauz
- Valencian Fishermen
- Portrait of Raquel Meller
- Helena in the cove of San Vicente
