Fifth Avenue seen from high above, awnings burning red below

Sorolla looks straight down into the avenue from an upper window. Motor cars, a green open-topped bus and horse cabs move up the roadway in blocks of green, yellow, white and blue; pedestrians are single dark marks on the pavement. Along the right-hand buildings a row of red-and-white striped awnings runs back in perspective. The toned brown of the support is left bare over much of the street, and the sheet is inscribed N.Y. at the lower centre.

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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