The painter in a white hat, palette raised, against deep red

Sorolla paints himself close up, turned three-quarters towards us in a wide white hat and a grey jacket, his greying beard and moustache built from broad wet strokes. A palette is held up at the lower left, a stroke of scarlet and a wedge of white loaded on it. The ground behind is deep crimson and near-black, with the corner of a stretcher showing at the upper left. The picture is inscribed to Clotilde and dated along the bottom edge.

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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