In just a few weeks, 2022 will end. and with the input 2023 The long-awaited Year of Sorolla will come. While activities in the surrounding area continue centennial of the death of the lord of light In Valencia, auction houses run their course and put up for sale some jewels left alive by the artist. At least two paintings by Sorolla are on sale this month of December. London Y Madrid.
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Specifically, part of Madrid’make a habita gouache and gouache On 50×97 cm paper. The Ansorena auction house, the organization that sold it, is “the original work”. Joaquin Sorolla Bass It was painted by Diputación de València in Italy in 1888, during his retirement in Rome. It was sold to Buenos Aires collector Matías Errázuriz in 1900 at an exhibition held by José Artal at the Witcomb Hall in Buenos Aires. The collector’s son presented it in the memory of Sorolla exhibition of the Spanish Cultural Association of Buenos Aires and was reproduced on page 63 of the book-catalogue published by the said institution. In 1973, Valencia Art Gallery took part in the ‘Painters of the Country of Valencia’ exhibition. 100,000 €.
Going on sale next Thursday, Sorolla’s second work represents one of the most typical prints and is in demand by collectors. oil on canvas Valencia beach It is on sale at Sotheby’s auction in London with prices starting from 200 TL. 70.000 €. This small piece, measuring 23 x 33 centimeters, was a donation by Sorolla to Jacques Copeau, general manager of the Comédie-Française theater in Paris between 1905 and 1909, a collaborator of Georges Petit. I am grateful for Copeau’s participation in the organization of his 1906 solo exhibition at the Georges Petit Gallery,” explains Sotheby’s, which sold this canvas. Now in a private collection, the painting was made around 1898 and represents Valencia, a subject Sorolla has been painting for several years.
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“His interest in the subject was at least partly inspired by the maxim of Jules Bastien-Lepage, who encouraged painters to paint what they know and represent subjects closest to them. The result was a series of canvases, such as mending fishing nets, building boats and harvesting catches. The themes revolve around the Valencian fishing community. sorolla He is becoming more and more impressionistic, which he perfects in oil paint sketches. His masterful free execution and the spirit that permeates his work are qualities that go to the heart of Sorolla’s aesthetic and explain his enduring popularity,” explain Sotheby’s.
The British auction house says of the painting’s history: “When Sorolla gave the piece to Jacques Copeau, he added an additional signature, an inscription, and dated the piece in 1906.”
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