A crowd on the breakwater watches a grey sea break under low cloud

The sea fills most of the canvas in grey-green and slate, one long wave breaking white across the middle and another collapsing at the right. A brown headland runs back under heavy violet-grey cloud. Along the low breakwater at the bottom edge stands a line of onlookers in dark coats and hats, with a pale pink skirt at the left, two small figures in red at the centre and a fawn coat further right; a dog crouches among them.

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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