A crowd of women unloading coal boats on a wide grey estuary

A long crowd of small figures works along the water's edge across the middle of the panel, dressed in black, white and red with baskets and headcloths; two dark boats are drawn up among them and a third lies further out. Beyond, the estuary opens in flat bands of pale blue-grey and violet with a single mast, and the far shore runs dark brown under a mauve sky. The whole foreground is bare ochre sand laid in with a loaded brush. Signed at the lower left.

Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923) was the painter of Spanish sunlight. From the 1890s he worked on the beaches of Valencia, painting bathers, fishermen, sails and children in the surf with a broad, rapid touch that caught the glare of the Mediterranean, and his exhibitions in Paris, London and New York made him one of the most celebrated painters of his day. His last great work was the Vision of Spain for the Hispanic Society of America. His paintings are held by the Museo Sorolla in Madrid, the Prado and the Hispanic Society.

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