Coming to Milan a major monographic exhibition dedicated to Joaquín Sorolla

From February 25 to June 26, 2022, Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the monographic exhibition Joaquín Sorolla. Painter of Light, curated by Micol Forti and Consuelo Luca De Tena with the involvement of Blanca Pons-Sorolla, promoted and produced by Palazzo Reale, Comune di Milano-Cultura and CMS.Cultura, in collaboration with Spain’s Ministry of Culture and Sport, Museo Sorolla and Fundación Museo Sorolla. The exhibition counts on the loan of a relevant nucleus of works from the Fundación Museo Sorolla, but it is also made possible thanks to the collaboration of prestigious public and private museum institutions such as the Museo de Bellas Artes in Valencia, the Hispanic Society in New York, the Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro in Venice, the Civici Musei di Udine, and Musei di Nervi Raccolte Frugone, to name a few.

The exhibition aims to retrace through sixty works and five thematic sections the rich artistic production of the great Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Valencia, 1863 - Cercedilla, 1923), among the greatest exponents of modern Iberian painting at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. His art was appreciated by critics and achieved national and international success: in 1900 he won the Grand Prix at the Universal Exhibition in Paris with the painting Sad Inheritance; in 1908 in London he was called “the greatest living painter in the world.” In 1909 in New York he achieved great success for his exhibition at theHispanic Society of America, where as many as 169,000 visitors arrived in two months. Three years later he produced the Visions of Spain, monumental canvases that were to cover the walls of the Hispanic Society’s library in which he depicted the traditions, customs, landscapes, and light of Spain.

Sorolla devoted himself with care to the study of light, strictly from life and en plein air. He then had the opportunity to portray the most influential elites of his time, including the Spanish royal family and American President William Taft. But the subject to which the painter devoted the most portraits was his family: his beloved Clotilde, his three children and his father-in-law Antonio García, who introduced the very young Sorolla to the art of photography. Even the portraits are transported into that world of light and reflections that characterizes Sorolla’s painting.

The exhibition aims to recount the painter’s great achievements in a journey between painting, history, literature and photography.

For more info: www.mostrasorolla.it

Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Image: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Snapshot, Biarritz (1906; oil on canvas, 62 x 93.5 cm; Madrid, Museo Sorolla)

Coming to Milan a major monographic exhibition dedicated to Joaquín Sorolla

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