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拍品 223
  • 223

Joaquín Sorolla

估價
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
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描述

  • En la playa (By the Seaside)
  • signed and dated J Sorolla B 1906 lower left
  • oil on board
  • 31.5 by 41cm., 12½ by 16¼in.

來源

Mr Francis Biddle, New York
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (a gift from the wife of the above in 1958; sale: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 19th Century European Paintings from the Collection of The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., New York, 3 May 1979, lot 33)
Private Collection, Switzerland (by 1990)
Purchased from the above by the present owner

展覽

London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Señor Sorolla y Bastida, 1908
New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art; St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum; San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art; Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno IVAM, Centre Julio González: Sorolla, 1989-90, no. 33, illustrated in the catalogue

出版

Edmund Peel, The Painter Joaquín Sorolla, London, 1989, p. 224, no. 33, catalogued & illustrated; p. 137, illustrated

Condition

The board is flat and even and ensuring a stable structural support. Apart from some light frame rubbing and minimal intermittent strokes of retouching along the right framing edge visible under ultraviolet light, this painting is in very good original condition, and ready to hang. Held in a decorative gilt frame, with Spanish-style mouldings. The colours are less red overall than in the catalogue illustration.
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拍品資料及來源

Painted in Biarritz in 1906, the present work depicts Sorolla's two daughters: María aged sixteen holding the parasol, with Elena aged eleven. Sorolla's stay there with his family followed his success in Paris, where he held his first one-man show of some four hundred and fifty works at the Galerie Georges Petit from 11 June until 10 July.
The climate, the clientele and the busy-ness of Biarritz dictated a different approach for Sorolla to that of the Mediterranean. Working all day on the beach, his output there was distinguished by more small format sketches rather than large canvases, possibly because the sheer number of beachgoers made it more difficult to compose a large painting, or perhaps as his response to the more variable Atlantic light. The works he painted there too are more measured. Rather than depicting the antics of young children frolicking on the beach, or fishermen working, Sorolla depicted elegantly dressed figures strolling along the shore. Often family members - as in the present example - Maria's pose in the present work is notably similar to Sorolla's depiction of her, parasol aloft, as she leads the way in the Lighthouse Walk at Biarritz painted the same summer (fig. 1).