Current events

From 5/18/13 to 9/1/13

Pisa morena. Cuplé, copla and dance in the time of Sorolla

Organized by: Institución Sorolla. Consorcio de Museos de la C V.

Location: Alicante, Museo de Bellas Artes Gravina (Diputación de Alicante)

Spectators are invited to discover the most popular cultural events of the changeover from the 19th to the 20th century, the focus of research of the Institución Joaquín Sorolla, through this select group of show-business artists and painters. With their mastery and unique personality, Pastora Imperio, Raquel Meller and Concha Piquer revolutionised the world of song and dance in Spain. The exhibition features their portraits by José Villegas Cordero, Joaquín Sorolla —twenty years younger than Villegas Cordero—and his disciple Manuel Benedito.

2/27/13

150th Anniversary of Birth of Joaquín Sorolla Bastida (1863-1923)

Organized by: Institució Sorolla. Consorci de Museus de la C V.

Location: Alicante, Castellón y Valencia

Events celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Joaquin Sorolla

From 2/27/13 to 7/21/13

Joaquín Sorolla and medicine. Portrait of Ramón y Cajal

Organized by: Institución Sorolla. Consorcio de Museos de la C V.

Location: Centro del Carmen. Valencia

Some of Joaquín Sorolla’s best known works are closely engaged with medicine. The drama of congenital syphilis was the theme that inspired him to paint 'Sad Inheritance!' He portrayed Dr. Simarro and his disciples with microscopes in 'Research. Dr. Simarro in the Laboratory' while in 'Father Jofré Protecting a Madman' he addressed historical and social issues associated with mental illness. Sorolla’s daughter María suffered from tuberculosis and he accompanied her during long periods of convalescence, during which he produced some of his most modern and striking portraits. These works, together with his portraits of over a dozen Spanish doctors, provide good proof of Sorolla’s concerns with illness and medicine, also a constant theme in his letter-writing.

From 6/14/12 to 10/14/12

Zuloaga and Sorolla, Artists in a Silver Age

Organized by: Institució Sorolla. Consorci de Museus de la C V.

Location: Centre del Carme. València

The Institución Joaquín Sorolla de Investigación y Estudios examines the culture in the changeover from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries through the work of two celebrated Spanish painters: Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (Eibar 1870 - Madrid 1945) and Joaquín Sorolla Bastida (Valencia 1863 - Cercedilla 1923). Both artists were famous in their own lifetime. Zuloaga’s paintings were acclaimed both in Spain and worldwide, with his international success following a path already opened by Sorolla. Both artists were indebted to the Spanish old masters, though with different results, and were often viewed as being diametrically opposed to one another. The two sparked the curiosity of young painters in Europe and America and each created a school. The paintings "My Cousins" (Ignacio Zuloaga, 1903) and "My Wife and Daughters in the Garden" (Joaquín Sorolla, 1910) exemplify the modernism of the silver age of Spanish painting.

From 6/12/12 to 9/9/12

Pintar y amarte. Biography of Joaquín Sorolla Bastida

Organized by: Institución Sorolla. Consorcio de Museos de la C V. (in collaboration with Museo Sorolla)

Location: Centro del Carmen. Valencia

The character of the painter Joaquín Sorolla Bastida (1863-1923) does not conform to the romantic cliché of the tortured genius nor to the avant-garde prototype of the bohemian. The artist dedicated himself entirely to painting, with almost the sole exception of the time he spent with his family. The international success of his work required Sorolla to undertake many trips abroad, on which he frequently went alone, far from his friends, wife and children. This made daily letter writing so important in keeping in touch with his loved ones. Whenever they were apart for questions of his work, barely a day would go by without Sorolla writing an affectionate letter to his wife Clotilde García del Castillo. At the end of February 1908 he wrote: "now I’ve told you all about my life today... I always say the same, painting and loving you, there is nothing else".

From 5/2/12 to 6/3/12

Pintar y amarte. Biography of Joaquín Sorolla Bastida

Organized by: Institución Sorolla. Consorcio de Museos de la C V. (in collaboration with Museo Sorolla)

Location: Centro del Carmen. Valencia

The character of the painter Joaquín Sorolla Bastida (1863-1923) does not conform to the romantic cliché of the tortured genius nor to the avant-garde prototype of the bohemian. The artist dedicated himself entirely to painting, with almost the sole exception of the time he spent with his family. The international success of his work required Sorolla to undertake many trips abroad, on which he frequently went alone, far from his friends, wife and children. This made daily letter writing so important in keeping in touch with his loved ones. Whenever they were apart for questions of his work, barely a day would go by without Sorolla writing an affectionate letter to his wife Clotilde García del Castillo. At the end of February 1908 he wrote: "now I’ve told you all about my life today... I always say the same, painting and loving you, there is nothing else".

From 2/23/12 to 5/6/12

Eating on the boat. Joaquín Sorolla

Organized by: Institución Joaquín Sorolla de Investigación y Estudios (Generalitat)

Location: Museo de Bellas Artes Gravina Alicante

When Joaquín Sorolla painted Eating on the Boat (1898) he had been working on the shore of the Mediterranean for eight years, accompanied by the buzzing activity of the fishermen and the fascinating reflection of sunlight on the water.

From 11/3/11 to 2/12/12

Eating on the boat. Joaquín Sorolla

Organized by: Institución Joaquín Sorolla de Investigación y Estudios (Generalitat)

Location: Centro del Carmen

When Joaquín Sorolla painted Eating on the Boat (1898) he had been working on the shore of the Mediterranean for eight years, accompanied by the buzzing activity of the fishermen and the fascinating reflection of sunlight on the water.

From 4/29/11 to 6/3/11

Letters by Sorolla. Drawings, studies and sketches

Location: Museum of Ceuta

The Museum of Ceuta presents a selection of letters of correspondence written by the painter Joaquin Sorolla Bastida (1863-1923) to his friend Pedro Gil Moreno de Mora (1860-1930) between 1886 and 1920. The letters form part of a collection acquired by the Consortium of Museums of the Valencian Community in 2006.

From 3/10/11 to 9/4/11

The Family of Estanislao Granzow

Organized by: Joaquín Sorolla Institution for Research and Study

Location: Centro del Carmen

Portrait painting experienced an extraordinary boom in the last few decades of the 19th century. Scholars and critics both attach special value and significance to the genre, due to its complexity and symbolism. To a great extent, the great masters of the past which were venerated during the fin-de-siècle as masters and guides, El Greco, Velázquez and Goya, poured all their genius into portraits. As a portrait painter, Sorolla was a highly-solicited professional who produced one of the most impressive groups of pictures of the Spanish elite of his day. On his canvases he reflected the ambitions and desire for distinction of high society of the period.

From 11/15/10 to 2/13/11

Elena Sorolla on the beach

Organized by: Institución Joaquín Sorolla de Investigación y Estudios (Generalitat)

Location: Centro del Carmen

In the summer of 1909, Joaquín Sorolla Bastida (1863-1923) painted some of his most emblematic works on the beaches of Valencia, including The Horse’s Bath, The Toy Boat and Children on the Beach. With these canvases, he consolidated his characteristic style and one of his favorite themes, depicting fishing families working or enjoying themselves on the shores of the Mediterranean.