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Catalogue >Fine Art >  Monographs >  Joaquín Sorolla Joaquín Sorolla Blanca Pons-Sorolla Joaquín Sorolla Sorolla (1863-1923) was one of the greatest natural painters of all time. This new, extensively illustrated monograph, written by the artist's great granddaughter, provides a comprehensive overview of his work. 280 x 240mm, 336 pages, 45 duotone, 40 mono and 183 colour illustrations, hardback ISBN 0 85667 605 5 | Retail price £40.00 Unfortunately this book is currently out of print.  [View sample pages in PDF format - 3MB download] Online price: £28.00 / €42.00 Born in Valencia, this Spanish painter was active mainly in his native town and in Madrid. He was a prolific and popular artist, working on a wide range of subjects - genre, portraits and landscapes - and his bravura style marked by luminous colouring and vigorous brushwork earned him a considerable reputation throughout Europe and America. He was also a highly sought after portraitist. Early in his career Sorolla mainly portrayed historical and social scenes before developing his own plein-air painting from the 1900s onwards, painting townscapes, garden scenes, nature studies, seascapes and beach scenes with an extraordinary ability of capturing light. From 1901 to 1905 he created 500 works adhering to his ideal of ‘natural painting’. From these paintings came the body of work shown in a series of shows in Paris, Berlin, London, New York and Chicago. Sorolla was then commissioned to create a multi-panelled work entitled Visions of Spain for the Hispanic Society in New York. He laboured on this from 1912-19 after which time he painted very little. He died in 1923. About the author Blanca Pons-Sorolla is accepted as the leading worldwide authority on the artist, and is a trustee of the Fundacion Museo Sorolla in Madrid. She has published several works on the artist, including his most extensive biography to date, Joaquin Sorolla, vida y obra.