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Joaquín Sorolla
SPANISH
EN EL RIO (AT THE RIVERSIDE)
EN EL RIO (AT THE RIVERSIDE)
LOT SOLD.
62,500 GBP
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Joaquín Sorolla
1863 - 1923
SPANISH
EN EL RIO (AT THE RIVERSIDE)
EN EL RIO (AT THE RIVERSIDE)
signed J. Sorolla B lower left
oil on canvas
13.5 by 24cm., 5¼ by 9½in.
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oil on canvas
13.5 by 24cm., 5¼ by 9½in.
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Blanca Pons Sorolla, who will be including it in her Sorolla catalogue raisonné (BPS 3491).
Provenance
Sale: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 February 1984, lot 97
Sammer Galleries, Madrid
Purchased from the above by the present owner
Sammer Galleries, Madrid
Purchased from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, The Hispanic Society of America, Paintings by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida exhibited by the Hispanic Society of America, 1909, no. 207
Literature
Aureliano de Beruete, C. Mauclair, H. Rochefort, L. Williams, E.L. Cary, J.G. Huneker, C. Brinton and W.E.B. Sterkweather, Eight Essays on Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, New York, 1909, vol. II, p. 107, no. 207, illustrated (as En el río)
Catalogue Note
Probably painted in Asturias in 1903. Sorolla travelled to Asturias to paint in the summer of 1902 and in the spring of 1903 and 04. There he established himself at the mouth of the Nalón River near San Juan de la Arena, visiting painter and fellow student from his Rome days, Tomás García Sampedro, and close to his friend the law professor Rafael Altamira.
The present oil of children playing by a river conforms to the format of a number of other paintings that he painted there, in which he used a reduced range of colours and a limited field of vision in order to bring out the chromatic beauty of this very spontaneous documenting of local life.
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