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Lot 50

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida
(Spanish, 1863-1923)
Bajo los Toldos, San Sebastian

28 September 2016, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish, 1863-1923)

Bajo los Toldos, San Sebastian
signed and dated 'J.Sorolla B/1906' (lower left)
oil on board
16 x 22cm (6 5/16 x 8 11/16in).

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Provenance
Private collection, Spain

Exhibited
London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Señor Sorolla y Bastida, May-July, 1908, inventory no.332

The present lot is a wonderful new discovery, painted during the few days that Sorolla spent working in San Sebastian in September of 1906.

Sorolla produced a series of small-scale coastal and beach studies, populated with elegantly dressed sunbathers, beach huts and boats, during his stay in Biarritz in the summer of 1906.1 The family then visited San Sebastian, primarily for Maria, Sorolla's eldest daughter, to visit a doctor. The present lot was painted during those few days.

We are grateful to Blanca Pons-Sorolla for confirming the attribution to Joaquin Sorolla. The work will be included in Blanca Pons-Sorolla's catalogue under inventory number BPS 1481.

1see for example: Playa de Biarritz, Christie's London, 14 June 2006, lot 74; Beach in Biarritz, Christie's London, 17 November 2005, lot 95; and Painting on Biarritz beach, Sotheby's London, 16 November 2004, lot 104.

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