Shop art print and framed art Bath Time, Valencia by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida

The Horse's Bath (also known as The White Horse) is a 205 × 250 cm oil on canvas by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. According to the signature, it is dated 1909 and is currently housed in the Sorolla Museum in Madrid. It is part of the series of beach paintings that the painter made at the Cabañal in Valencia on his return from the United States. This series of canvases, which he painted in the summer of 1909, includes other works such as Promenade by the Sea. Sorolla's usual technique was to adopt a point of view high above the scene, placing it at the level of the boy's head held by the horse's bridle, a group that forms a long, sloping foreground that reduces the horizon to a thin fringe. Presumably, in this way, the artist avoids the emptiness of the clear Valencian sky and focuses the viewer's attention on the sand of the beach and the undulating line of the water with its few shadows, the reflections of light, which Sorolla knew how to render masterfully with his light, agile [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« Bath Time, Valencia » is kept at Museo Sorolla, Madrid, Spain.

 

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