Footnotes

• LITERATURE:
  Bernardino de Pantorba, La vida y la obra de Joaquín Sorolla, Madrid, 1953, no. 1229
  Catalogue raisonne Blanca Pons–Sorolla, Madrid, no. BPS 3648
  
  To be sold with an original certificate of authenticity issued by Blanca–Pons Sorolla Ruiz de la Prada, 2 August 2002. A certificate was also issued by Francisco Pons-Sorolla y Arnau, 10 July 1986.
  
  The present lot was painted in Sagunto circa 1889. It is most probable that this is the same painting titled Sagunto which was exhibited in La Exposición del Salón Hernández de Madrid in 1890. This was an interesting period in Sorolla's career, when he was assimilating the lessons of Bastien-Lepage and the growing naturalist movement that he had witnessed at the 1885 Bastien-Lepage retrospective and the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris. This is evident in the present lot, where Sorolla integrates the figure into the strong, bright Valencian landscape, a theme further explored in one of his major compositions of the same period, Valencian dance in the orange grove, in the Villar-Mir Collection in Madrid.

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Category: Fine Art / 19th Century Paintings

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