Shop art print and framed art Valencian Fisherwomen by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

The Fisherman is a painting produced by the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla in 1904. The work was painted on the Valencian beach of Cabañal and shows a boy in the foreground carrying the day's catch in a basket. The composition is remarkable for its luminosity, with blue and pink tones predominating. The main figure follows a diagonal, is cut off at the knees, is bare-chested and has a hat covering his face. With his left arm, he is supporting a wicker basket covered by a cloth that is being blown by the wind, revealing the peach. In the background, children are playing in the waves. Some have seen in this work the influence of photography, on which Sorolla had worked for several years during his youth with Antonia García Peris. The student had begun a relationship with the master's daughter, Clotilde, who became his wife. The painting was included in the painter's first international exhibition at the Georges Petit gallery in Paris in 1906, and has been in the hands of private collectors ever since. In 2010 it was exhibited in New York, Moscow, Barcelona and Madrid, before being sold at auction on 23 November by Sotheby's for €3.6 million. In 2003, L'heure du bain (1904), another work by Sorolla painted on the same beach in Valencia, fetched [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« Valencian Fisherwomen » is kept at Museo Sorolla, Madrid, Spain.

 

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