A rust-red shore closes round a bay of clear green-blue water

Broken rock in rust, apricot and cream fills the foreground and runs down both sides of the bay; the water between is worked in deep blue and green with paler patches where the bottom shows through. Beyond, the headland rises in grey-green and ochre and drops to the sea at the right. The sky is a thin wash of pale blue and cream. The paint is loaded thickly on the rocks and thin on the water.

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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