The exhibition will be on display at the Museum of Mallorca from 3 June to 8 September.
The Consell de Mallorca is organising an exhibition dedicated to Joaquín Sorolla. The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has announced that “for the first time, the 12 works that the artist produced on the island will be shown together in the same room”.
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The Consell de Mallorca organises an exhibition dedicated to Sorolla
The exhibition will be inaugurated on 3 June at 7 p.m. at the Museum of Mallorca and will be open until 8 September. During these months, stressed the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, “it will be possible to enjoy the essence of Sorolla: his textures, brushstrokes and experimentation with colours and light that he carried out in places like Palma, the coast of Valldemossa and Pollença”.
The Sorolla Museum has contributed 10 works that the artist produced on the island: seven paintings of Cala Sant Vicenç, a portrait of a pagan woman and two of Mallorcan houses. In addition, Es Baluard and a private collection in Madrid have left two more works by Sorolla that complete his journey around Mallorca.
This is the last stop of the project “Sorolla. Travelling to paint”, which is being carried out to commemorate the centenary of the death of Joaquín Sorolla Bastida (1863-1923), an event declared an Event of Exceptional Public Interest for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024. The aim is to take Sorolla’s works to the main places where they were executed: they have already been to San Sebastián, Toledo, Galicia, Valladolid and Seville, and the last stop is Mallorca.
Sorolla was in the Balearic Islands in the summer of 1919. This trip was of particular importance for the painter’s career, as the paintings made on this trip were Sorolla’s last view of the Mediterranean, as the following June he suffered the cardiovascular accident that kept him away from painting until the end of his life three years later. “This exhibition, therefore, represents the perfect closure to the project,” said Galmés.