A swimmer turns in green water shot through with yellow light

A boy swims away from the viewer with his back to the surface, his shoulders and hair catching full sun while the rest of him breaks into the water's colour. Sorolla paints the sea as a mosaic of short strokes — emerald, teal, ultramarine and hard lemon yellow where the sun strikes through — and lets a second swimmer appear only as a pale shape at the upper right. The rocks at the far left are two strokes of ochre. Signed at the lower right.

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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