Through letters, photographs and unpublished drawings of the famous artist, Sorolla's work is reviewed to commemorate the centenary of his death.
Since last October until next February 16, the Temporary Sample Room of the Gallery of the Real Collections hosts Sorolla exhibition, one hundred years of modernity. That is why this same place has been chosen to present the new artika editorial book that has the famous Valencian painter as the protagonist. acrylic spinning topper
Intimate sorolla is the name of an exclusive edition, limited and numbered to 2,998 specimens that have been created to commemorate the centenary of the painter's death in collaboration both with the museum that bears his name and with his great-grandchild and his family
In a luxury exhibitor case made in upper methacrylate with the name of the engraved and lateral painter made of painted iron there is a set composed of an art book with 71 drawings of intimate and everyday scenes, many of whom never moved to the canvas since the painter made them for himself; a book of studies, which brings together great experts from the figure of Sorolla, including his great-grandson Blanca Pons-Sorolla; An exclusive large format art sheet and, finally, an epistolary in which letters exchanged between Joaquín and his wife Clotilde meet from 1891 to 1919 that they had never been shared before to the public.
The art book is a hand bound volume whose canvas fabric reproduces a detail of instant oil, Biarritz, 1906. It collects the most personal and full of sorolla spontaneity with maternal care, children's games, sewing afternoons, nap, readings and study.
Prologued by the director of the Sorolla Museum, Enrique Varela Agüí, each chapter has a protagonist and begins with the detail of an oil of the painter in addition to the extract of one of his cards. It is almost like an enlightened newspaper of the painter's family intimacy formed by 71 real -size and die -size sheets that are organized in family scenes, self -portraits or paintings of Clotilde (his wife) or María, Joaquín and Elena (their three children).
Blanca Pons-Sorolla, great-grandson of the artist and president of the Permanent Commission of the Sorolla Museum Foundation; Consuelo Luca de Tena Navarro, art historian and former director of the Sorolla Museum in the Ministry of Culture; and Covadonga Pitarch Angulo, head of the Marketing and Sponsorships of the Gallery of the Royal and former conservative collections of the Sorolla Museum, are those who, among other experts, participate in the book of studies to present the context and the detailed explanation of the contents of this exclusive piece.
For its part, the epistolary brings together three decades of love in 210 letters written between 1891 and 1919, exchanged between Joaquín Sorolla and his wife. For the first time the correspondence of Clotilde García del Castillo is published, until now unpublished, so important due to the long trip of the painter. They see the paradigm of a relationship of the time with all its nuances and forms. Love, devotion and intimacy, but also a deep respect and mutual admiration. From his concerns as parents and the painter's artistic activities, to the socio -economic conditions of a bourgeois family of the moment.
This creation that offers art lovers the opportunity to possess a unique and complete representation of the most famous Spanish painter of his time, known for dedicating his life to capturing in his canvases the light and natural beauty without artifice also includes a large format sheet of a drawing made by the artist in carboncillo, clarion and red oil on paper, which presided over the main bedroom of the artist and that reaffirms the figure of his wife as his wife Inspiring Natural Study, CA. 1905 is this work that represents how the drawings were a very important part in the artist's trajectory, since through them he captured moments and unique moments of his family life.
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