Sorolla exhibition

It has taken ninety years for Joaquín Sorolla’s series of paintings Visione de España (Visions of Spain) to reach Valencia. The 14 legendary paintings commissioned from the artist by the Hispanic Society of New York will be on display in the Bancaja Foundation from November 7th until March 31st 2008. The 14 canvases depict popular life and customs in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century where scenes from Santa Marinera Holy Week in Valencia, tuna fishing at Ayamonte and the Elche palm grove can be seen. The works will be in Spain for two years. Then, the most ambitious undertaking of the realist painter Joaquín Sorolla, commissioned by Archer Milton Huntington in 1904, will return to New York. Further information: http://www.obrasocial.bancaja.es
Asli Oztekin