The Bancaja Foundation has presented this morning the exhibition Sorolla. Masterpieces from the Sorolla Museum, produced together with the Ministry of Culture, the Sorolla Museum and the Sorolla Museum Foundation. The exhibition brings together in Valencia in an exceptional way a selection of the masterpieces from the artist's house-museum in Madrid. The extraordinary circumstance of the temporary closure of the Sorolla Museum for its expansion and rehabilitation allows a set of great paintings to be displayed in the painter's hometown, that can hardly fit all together for the same exhibition. The presentation included the participation of the president of the Bancaja Foundation, Rafael Alcon, and the director of the Sorolla Museum and curator of the exhibition, Enrique Varela.
The sample is made up of 59 works that have traveled from Madrid to Valencia for a project that traces the painter's life and artistic career through a selection of the most outstanding creations from the collection of the Sorolla Museum and the Sorolla Museum Foundation, like a walk by the sea, The horse's bath or The nap, among other. Composed of nearly one thousand four hundred works, The Sorolla Museum's painting collection is the most important in the world by the master of light., being the reference by number, quality and variety of genres represented. These are the works that neither Sorolla nor Clotilde left behind and are the founding works of the Sorolla Museum., created in 1931 by the will of the artist's wife. Many of the works presented are exhibited at the Bancaja Foundation for the first time in its extensive history of Sorolla monographic exhibitions at its headquarters in Valencia.. The large and relevant collection of works from the house-museum dialogues in the room with the canvas Sad Inheritance!, from the Bancaja Foundation collection, with which Sorolla won the Grand Prix at the Universal Exposition of 1900 in Paris and with which he achieved his international recognition.
The exhibition is divided into different sections that address his early years of training in Valencia and Italy., in which the young Sorolla begins to demonstrate his ability and ingenuity as an artist; the affirmation of his artistic personality in Madrid with the obtaining of national and international recognition; his mastery in the genre of portraiture with family canvases; the iconography of the sea so relevant in his artistic production with emblematic works that he kept in his possession; his intimate garden painting; his plastic chronicle of the Spain of his time with types and landscapes of the time; and his stay in Cala de San Vicente (Pollensa, Mallorca) in 1919, in what was his last trip to paint the Mediterranean before his death.
The exhibition can be visited at the headquarters of the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia (Tetuan Square, 23) of the 3 October 2025 al 8 February 2026.
