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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Portrait of Mrs. Esperanza Conill de Zanetti
- signed J. Sorolla y Bastida and dated 1909 (center right)
- oil on canvas
- 61 1/4 by 44 in.
- 155.5 by 111.5 cm (oval)
Provenance
Esperanza Conill de Zanetti, New York (commissioned from the artist, 1909)
Thence by descent
Thence by descent
Literature
La Ilustración Artística, Barcelona, June 21, 1909, p. 10, illustrated
Bernardino de Pantorba, La vida y la obra de Joaquín Sorolla, Madrid, 1970, p. 14, no. 2054
Blanca Pons Sorolla, "Paintings Sold and Portraits Painted in America, and Portraits Painted in France for Americans: Not Included in the Exhibition," Sorolla and America, exh. cat., Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University and travelling, 2013, p. 318, no. 249, illustrated
Bernardino de Pantorba, La vida y la obra de Joaquín Sorolla, Madrid, 1970, p. 14, no. 2054
Blanca Pons Sorolla, "Paintings Sold and Portraits Painted in America, and Portraits Painted in France for Americans: Not Included in the Exhibition," Sorolla and America, exh. cat., Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University and travelling, 2013, p. 318, no. 249, illustrated
Condition
Lined. Under UV: Small dot of inpaiting fluoresces at her proper right shoulder strap and in three small spots at the bottom.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
The present work was painted in 1909, during Sorolla's first celebrated and productive visit to the United States, and evidences the creativity and diversity of approaches the artist employed in his portraiture. As he wrote to his American patron Archer M. Huntington, "I am starting to notice that portraits can also be art... I am finishing the portrait... [of] the beautiful Spanish (Cuban) Mrs. Zanetti, half dressed, Goyaesque and exciting (as quoted in Sorolla y la Hispanic Society, Una visión de la España de entresiglos, exh. cat., Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, 1998-1999, p. 380). Married to a professor at Columbia University, Esperanza also modelled for Sorolla's friend John Singer Sargent in the 1920s.