Havana Sorollas will be exhibited at the el Prado Museum
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- 06 / 03 / 2009
Both works entered the funds of the Fine Arts museum alter 1959, when its previous owner, the family of the sugar tycoon Jose Gomez Mena, moved in a rush to Florida at the news of the triumph of the Revolution, leaving behind in Cuba an important art collection.
Those of us who have had the chance of seeing these paintings, made by the Valencia painter in the first years of the XX century, have been deeply moved by the summer described in the painting Verano, for the spontaneity of the forms, the freshness of the air in the robe of the children and the lightness of the sun that makes the colours to jump and oblige that mother that carries a little boy, to partially close her eyes.
It is an interest in the daily life, which is also seen in the portrait Clotilde paseando en los jardines de la Granja, where he painted the figure of his wife Clotilde García del Castillo, watching her reflection in the waters of a fountain.
In that Granja (Farm) of San Idelfonso, while he was painting a portrait of King Alfonso XII, by order of the same king, is where Sorolla is caught by the beauty of the gardens and starts identifying with that topic that will be recurrent in his work. It will be a topic he never abandoned once he finished his stay in Castilla, but, on contrary, he continue painting about it, for many years, feeding it with different landscapes of the Spanish provinces, where he lived with his own family, with his wife and daughters a his favourite models.
Sea, as a singular space towards directing his paintbrushes, had motivated his artistic worries some years before, about 1895, with the revealing work, Aún dicen que el pescado es caro, with which he won that same year the First Medal of the National Exhibition. This was another topic he would continue representing with predilection, the daily work of the fishermen in Valencia, his born land.
These sea topics, with beaches and portraits – among which are included Verano and Clotilde paseando en los jardines de la Granja, as beautiful exponents – are the typologies with which the author became world famous and recognition all over the world as the most important Spanish author of his time.
Verano and Clotilde paseando en los jardines de la Granja Hill be exhibited from this 26 of May in the exhibition that carries his name, Joaquin Sorolla (1863 – 1923), with about a hundred paintings belonged to different private collections and institutions from all over the world.
The ambitious Outlook includes also 14 valuable pieces from the Sorolla Museum – located in the Madrid house of the painter -, as well as 14 giant panels that make the series Vision of Spain, specially painted for the decoration of the Hispanic Society of America in New York.
This way it is paid tribute to Joaquin Sorolla in the most enlighten of his creations, to which Cuba is joining with the magic of the master of the paintbrush, from the closeness of Havana Prado to the Spanish sidewalks that leads us towards their national art gallery.
(Cubarte)
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