The Valencian impressionist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was one of Spain’s best-loved artists. Although he enjoyed success in Europe (he won the Grand Prix and Medal of Honour at the Universal ...

Arranged thematically, the exhibition features works representing the subjects and styles for which Sorolla was renowned, including portraits, beach scenes, gardens and landscapes, history ...

compared to his beach scenes where you see this ever-increasing fluidity in what he is doing,” Gustafson said. ‘The evolution of Sorolla’s technique has created a chronologically easy ...

This chart shows whether Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s total sales are going up, and if so, whether this is because more artworks by the artist have been offered and sold or because more high-value ...

Spanish impressionist Joaquín Sorolla was dubbed the Master of Light by contemporaries such as John Singer Sargent and Claude Monet. The first UK exhibition of the artist in over a century has ...

But none equals the burst of joy in the room with Sorolla's beach scenes. With easy, rapid brushstrokes, Sorolla painted a little girl, poised to jump into the sea. In another canvas, a nursemaid ...

Sorolla is billed here as Master of Light, which he was. The most obviously appealing pieces are the beach scenes with naked boys at the water’s edge, their skin glistening in the sun ...

While there, the young artist painted Paris Boulevard—a bustling evening cityscape that departs from his characteristic Mediterranean beach scenes. Sorolla also added a subtle self-portrait to ...

Sorolla witnessed such a scene — “so beautiful and so sad at the same time” — at Valencia’s Malvarrosa beach, where a religious order ran a hospital. He transforms it into a frieze ...

Sorolla seems to have been someone absolutely sure of his vocation. He was a very quick painter who painted his beach scenes en plein air. His 1904 Afternoon at the Beach in Valencia (main picture) ...