The long pool of the Alhambra doubling a pink arcade

A pale pink arcade of horseshoe arches runs across the top of the canvas under a green-tiled roof, with a dark doorway at the centre and a blue-tiled interior beyond. The reflecting pool below takes it all again in ochre, brown and gold, the surface broken into long horizontal strokes; clipped myrtle hedges run down both sides in dark green. Two wedges of hard blue mark the water at the bottom corners. Inscribed 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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