Sorolla and the Sea

  • Visual arts
  • Miami
  • Sat, Nov 23, 2024 —
    Sun, Mar 16, 2025
Sorolla and the Sea

“Sorolla and the Sea” features 40 works by Joaquín Sorolla, highlighting his lifelong connection to Spain’s Mediterranean coastline.

Painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida grew up on the Valencian coast of Spain studying the Mediterranean light, landscape, and modern life. Combining precision with unmixed colors and free brushwork, Sorolla’s work balances the Spanish tradition of Realism with the Modernist trends of the 20th century.

Sorolla and the Sea features approximately 40 works, on loan from The Hispanic Society of America Museum & Library for the first time in over 100 years.

This exhibition explores Sorolla’s lifelong connection to the sea and is organized into five sections that each examine a different aspect of this subject matter —from the artist’s life and work to his plein-air paintings and beach scenes, as well as the people of Spain from the fishermen to the regional traditions captured in the artist’s well-known series, Visions of Spain. Collectively, these works create a portal across the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean seaside of early 20th-century Spain.


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Lecture: Sorolla and the Sea

For the opening of the special exhibition Sorolla and the Sea, Guillaume Kientz, Director and CEO of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, introduces Joaquín
Sorolla y Bastida, the acclaimed Spanish “painter of light” whose renowned beach and ocean scenes from the Hispanic Society are on view through April 13. Learn
about the artist whom many regard as a vital bridge between the tradition of Velázquez and Modernism.

Concert: The Trillium Piano Trio

  • On Sunday, November 24, from 3 pm to 4:30 pm.
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The Trillium Piano Trio, featuring pianist Yoko Sata Kothari, violinist Ruby Berland, and cellist Aziz Sapaev, performs music from the Baroque to the Romantic eras. In relation to the opening weekend of the special exhibition Sorolla and the Sea, the Trillium Piano Trio’s program includes Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor by Joaquin Turina, as well as pieces by J.S. Bach and Bedřich Smetana.

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Norton Museum, 1450 S Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach, FL 33401

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Norton Museum of Art

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Organized by The Hispanic Society Museum & Library with support from The Museum Box. Additional programming brought in collaboration with the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, DC. Image: The Beach, Valencia (Oxen Pulling a Boat), by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, before 1909.

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