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Masterpiece resurfaces 130 years after it was sold to collector
The Guardian
|December 04, 2024
A painting by the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla has gone on public show for the first time since it vanished after being sold to a private collector 134 years ago.
Paris Boulevard, which was painted by Sorolla during a visit to the French capital between 1889 and 1890, shows a bustling cafe as dusk falls on the city. Its creator – who was known for his mastery of light and was more usually associated with bright and limpid Mediterranean beach scenes – makes a cameo in the work, smoking a cigar while seated at a table with a soldier.
The picture is one of 77 paintings that make up an exhibition at the Royal Collections gallery in Madrid titled Sorolla, One Hundred Years of Modernity.
This story is from the December 04, 2024 edition of The Guardian.
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