Provenance
Private collection, Spain

Exhibited
London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Señor Sorolla y Bastida, May-July, 1908, inventory no.332

The present lot is a wonderful new discovery, painted during the few days that Sorolla spent working in San Sebastian in September of 1906.

Sorolla produced a series of small-scale coastal and beach studies, populated with elegantly dressed sunbathers, beach huts and boats, during his stay in Biarritz in the summer of 1906.¹ The family then visited San Sebastian, primarily for Maria, Sorolla's eldest daughter, to visit a doctor. The present lot was painted during those few days.

We are grateful to Blanca Pons-Sorolla for confirming the attribution to Joaquin Sorolla. The work will be included in Blanca Pons-Sorolla's catalogue under inventory number BPS 1481.

¹see for example: Playa de Biarritz, Christie's London, 14 June 2006, lot 74; Beach in Biarritz, Christie's London, 17 November 2005, lot 95; and Painting on Biarritz beach, Sotheby's London, 16 November 2004, lot 104.

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