Description:
Between 1911 and 1919, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) created the series of oil painted panels known as The Vision of Spain. These where commissioned to him by Archer Huntington for the Hispanic Society of America in New York. These works of art, as well as the 58 large-scale gouache sketches that accompanied them to New York after the painter's death in 1923, can be considered to be this great Valencian artist's culminating creative act and also the real epilogue and synthesis of all his production. Now, thanks to the extensive collaboration between three institutions which Iook after the conservation and international diffusion of the Spanish artistic patrimony, the biggest and final group of sketches of this monumental series composed by 25 works (32 sheets altogether), has been restored. These institutions are the Hispanic Society of America in New York, the Bancaja Cultural Foundation and Generalitat Valenciana through the General Sub-department of Conservation, Restoration and lnvestigation IVCR+i. The exhibition "Intimate Sorolla, sketches of The VIsion of Spain" successfully shown in different Spanish cities, is the culmination of this work. ln it you can see both, the creative process of Sorolla, through these sketches, and the complex intervention of restoration carried out by the professionals of the IVCR+i, who have used the Japanase SOKO technique and the most respectful and advanced criteria in conservation and restoration.