Sorolla. Travelling to paint: another vision of Spain

As part of the activities to commemorate the centenary of the death of Joaquín Sorolla Bastida (1863-1923), the Sorolla Museum and the Sorolla Museum Foundation are presenting an exhibition from 17 October to 14 April 2024 that offers an innovative and exciting journey following in the painter's footsteps.

Visitors to the exhibition will be able to gain in-depth knowledge of Sorolla's extensive career and his personality, as the essence of his work is linked to the concept of travel. The artist's motivation for all his travels lay in painting in the open air or "au plein air", which gradually became a necessity, giving rise to a travelling painter who took his brushes to a total of fifty-four Spanish towns and seventeen foreign cities, highlighting his two tours of the United States.

In this way, Joaquín Sorolla forged an independent and cosmopolitan lifestyle through which he spread the progress that he always championed. The exhibition has been curated by Enrique Varela Agüí, Director of the Sorolla Museum, and Acacia Sánchez Domínguez, a technician at the Sorolla Museum, tracing the artist's journey of light through the different regions of Spain over more than forty years of hard work.

The exhibition pays tribute to Sorolla as the great chronicler and artistic ambassador of Spain between the centuries and it is divided into five sections: Sorolla, Open Air Painter; Mediterranean, an open-air study; The challenge of the Bay of Biscay; Natural landscape / Monumental landscape; The Garden, Interior Landscape.