Sorolla and the United States. Fundación Mapfre

This exhibition aims to tell the story of Joaquín Sorolla?s great success in the United States. Some one hundred works that had a wide impact on the American public make it possible to represent the various facets of the artist?s painting, including his beach and garden scenes, his passion for Andalusia and the magnificent portraits he painted of some of the country?s important people.

This exhibition explores Joaquín Sorolla?s unique relationship with the United States in the early twentieth century. Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) was the most internationally known Spanish artist until the arrival of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), and his paintings are in many of the most important museums and private collections in the world. Sorolla created some of the most convincing and life-enhancing images of a luminous and Mediterranean Spain, both optimistic and modern.

The exhibition will feature works that relate to his American connection and explain how this country affected the artist, as well as how Sorolla was received by American audiences. Addressed in the exhibition will be the repercussions of Sorolla?s blockbuster U.S. exhibitions in 1909 and 1911 from the artistic to the financial perspective. Through these various facets, the exhibition will allow visitors to gain an understanding of the significance and quality of this celebrated painter.

The present exhibition includes exceptional loans from The Hispanic Society of America, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum and The Morgan Library & Museum, all in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, San Luis, The San Diego Museum of Art, and The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, among other leading institutions. It shows the artistically mature Sorolla at his finest and as a painter who had achieved the maximum level of refinement, while also focusing on his remarkable international reputation.

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Date: From September 26 until January 11 2015http://www.exposicionesmapfrearte.com/sorolla_estadosunidos/en/

Where: Fundación Mapfre. Recoletos

Address: Paseo de Recoletos, 23

Opening hours: M from14 to 20 h. From T to ST from10 to 20h. SU and bank holidays from 11 to 19 h.

Price: free entrance