A pink and ochre beach seen from above, figures reduced to dashes

Sorolla looks down on the sand from high above: broad sweeps of rose, apricot and mauve for the beach, a mass of ochre and warm brown across the centre for the sunlit slope, and a wash of yellow and orange at the upper left. Bathers and strollers are set down as single strokes of black, white, orange and green. A dark figure at the left is doubled by its reflection in the wet sand. Signed and dated 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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