Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
VALENCIA 1863 - 1923 CERCEDILLA
VIEJO CASTELLANO SIRVIÉNDOSE VINO (THE OLD MAN OF CASTILLE)
We are grateful to Blanca Pons Sorolla for her assistance in cataloguing this work, which will be included in her forthcoming Sorolla catalogue raisonné (BPS 1880).
Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo (acquired in 1909 from the New York Exhibition through the Elizabeth G. Gates Fund for $2,400);
By whom sold, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 14 October 1943, lot 63;
Private Collection, Madrid, by the mid-1960s;
Thence by descent in the family;
By whom anonymously sold (“Property from a Private Collection”), London, Sotheby’s, 10 December 2014, lot 51, for $305,145;
There acquired.
London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Senor Sorolla y Bastida, 1908 (as The Glass of Wine);
New York, The Hispanic Society of America; Buffalo, Fine Arts Academy; Boston, Copley Society of Art: Paintings by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Exhibited by the Hispanic Society of America, 8 February - 11 May 1909, no. 89 (New York); no. 61 (Boston and Buffalo) (as Viejo castellano / Old Castilian);
Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, 1922;
Dallas, The Texas Fine Art Association, 1923;
Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, 1928;
Dayton, The Dayton Art Institute, 1930.
A. de Beruete, C. Mauclair, H. Rochefort, L. Williams, E. Cary, J.G. Huneker, C. Brinton and W.E.B. Starkweather, Eight Essays on Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, New York 1909, vol. I, p. 295, cat. no. 89, reproduced (as Viejo castellano);
Catalogue of Paintings by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, exhibited by The Hispanic Society of America, exhibition catalogue, New York 1909, cat. no. 89, reproduced p. 92 (as Viejo castellano / Old Castilian);
“Joaquín Sorolla-y-Bastida: His Wonderful Collection of Paintings at the Albright Gallery,” in Academy Notes, April 1909, vol. IV, p. 185, cat. no. 11, reproduced p. 182 (as An Old Castillian);
C. Brinton, “Two Great Spanish Painters: Sorolla and Zuloaga,” in The Century Magazine, May 1909, p. 31, reproduced (as The Old Castillian);
T.R. Ibarra, “The American Success of a Great Spanish Painter,” New York 1909, p. II562, reproduced (as An Old Castillian);
“In Memoriam: Joaquín Sorolla,” in Academy Notes, July-December 1923, vol. XVIII, p. 77, cat. no. 2;
B. de Pantorba, La vida y obra de Joaquín Sorolla, Madrid 1970, p. 190, cat. no. 1622 (as Viejo Castellano sirviéndose vino);
Joaquín Sorolla, 1863-1923, exhibition catalogue, Madrid 2009, p. 381, reproduced fig. 271;
Sorolla and America, exhibition catalogue, Dallas 2013, p. 302, cat. no. 32, reproduced;
Sorolla y Estados Unidos, exhibition catalogue, Madrid 2014, p. 350, reproduced;
J.L. Colomer, B. Pons-Sorolla, and M.A. Roglán, Sorolla in America: Friends and Patrons, Dallas 2015, p. 165, reproduced p. 168.