A pale stone basin planted with leaves, doubled in dark water

A shallow white stone basin stands at the centre of a shaded garden pool, planted with broad leaves whose blades run from blue-green to hard yellow where the light strikes them. Below it the water is almost black-brown, holding the basin's reflection and long yellow-ochre streaks of the leaves above. Around the edge the planting runs to olive, bronze and deep green, with a strip of pink wall closing the top of the canvas.

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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