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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 36. Ría de Asturias. Las Carboneras (At the Estuary, Asturias).

Property from an Italian Private Collection

Joaquín Sorolla

Ría de Asturias. Las Carboneras (At the Estuary, Asturias)

Lot Closed

December 9, 02:32 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Italian Private Collection

Joaquín Sorolla

Spanish

1863 - 1923

Ría de Asturias. Las Carboneras (At the Estuary, Asturias)


signed J. Sorolla. B lower left

oil on board

Framed: 41 by 52.5cm., 16¼ by 20¾in.

Unframed: 22.5 by 34cm., 8¾ by 13½in.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Blanca Pons Sorolla, who will be including it in the forthcoming Sorolla catalogue raisonné (BPS 1669).

Painted in Asturias circa 1902-04, the present work depicts carboneras, women who worked unloading coal barges, and can be compared with another contemporary study of the same dimensions in the Museo Sorolla, Madrid (inv. no. 457).