Prado Museum, centennial Commemorating the death of Valencian painter Joaquín Sorolla, an exhibition showing his face as a portraitist will be held in 2023, and it will also be possible to see the purchase of his recently painted portrait for 80,000 Euros. Manuel Bartolome Cossio.
By June 18 Prado, 60″Portraits of Sorolla“, on one of the walls of this room is the name of this exhibition, in which there is a portrait recently purchased from his heirs by Cossío, the first Trustee of the Prado Museum and the author of the first major monograph. Greco.
A piece that joins the Sorolla painting collection owned by the museum –23, 18 of which are portraits-, a portrait of the painter Martín Rico, including another purchase this year.
“With this exhibition, we are satisfying our two desires,” said Prado’s manager. Miguel Falomir, Portraits of “two important personalities” about this new proposal, where they removed the “normally not exhibited” paintings from their collections and welcomed these two works, which stand out only with their plastic values, in Spain. last century”.
Curator of the exhibition and Prado XIX. Javier Baron, A work where you can not only pay homage to Sorolla’s El Greco (especially the canvas “The Knight with his hand on his chest”), but also “see the legacy” of Velázquez and Goya after the restoration.
Effects seen in other portraits made by the painter Aureliano Beruete Y Maria Theresa Moretor actress Maria Guerrero Where Sorolla exhibits a special sensuality and lavish colors compared to male portraits.
With exhibits in this profile, as Barón adds, Prado also wants to “report” paintings that have never left their collections before, so that he not only sees the light but also restores them, as in the doctor’s portrait. Francisco Rodriguez de Sandoval.
In this area and next to Cossío’s portrait, the visitor will be able to see Cossío’s portrait. Guner de los Rios, then a canvas in temporary storage at Prado Free Education Institution Bought it for 25,000 Euros.
This portrait and Cossío’s left Spain after the Civil War, so this return adds value to this exhibition. a “see the best of Spain back then”, According to Baron.
A portrait is added to these two canvases on the same wall. Aureliano de Beruete Jr.During his time as director of the Prado Museum (from 1918 to 1922) he created the first room dedicated to El Greco in 1920.
Room 60 of the Villanueva building, Museo del Prado, dedicated to the presentation of the 19th Century Collections, with this exhibition Celebrating the centennial of the death of the light painter, Valencian master, also a portrait painter, who became an international reference in the first decade of the 20th century.