To talk about Joaquín Sorolla is to talk about the warmth and luminosity of his beloved Mediterranean Sea, the one that his paintings reflect and that his Madrid House Museum collects with pride. More than 100 years have passed since the painter took over a plot of land on the old Paseo del Obelisco, today General Martínez Campos Street, and turned it into a small paradise of gardens where he could settle and live peacefully with his family.
The Valencian painter came to enjoy it for just over 10 years, when hemiplegia while he was painting a portrait of Ramón Pérez de Ayala's wife diminished his physical abilities to the point of preventing him from continuing with his passion, and he died at his summer residence. three years after that event. But until then her work was prolific and the legacy that reaches us was delicately beautiful.
His wife, Clotilde García del Castillo, upon her death bequeathed the house and the collections that belonged to her to the Spanish State, so that a museum could be created in memory of her husband. So in 1932 what has today become one of the hot spots of Madrid culture was inaugurated, at least for all those who want to get to know the figure of Sorolla more closely.
Originally, the institution was created as a “private charitable-teaching foundation,” according to its documents, but for administrative reasons, it became independent of the Museum in 1993, continuing today as two entities, the Museum itself and the Foundation itself. . Their work goes so hand in hand that, after many years of maturing the idea, the first volume of a total of four will be published next March/April 2019, which under the umbrella “Catalog Raisonné of the Museum Sorolla” includes a detailed analysis and investigation of each and every one of the works of the Valencian painter.
This first volume has had the support of the Sorolla Museum and the Sorolla Museum Foundation, with the Maria Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, and El Viso Editions. In this sense, we can highlight that De Salas participates very actively in this cultural adventure of the Museum and the descendants of the painter, with whom we are united by an old friendship.
Admirers of Sorolla, at De Salas we invite all our clients to join all the cultural initiatives proposed by the Museum and its Foundation, even seeking synergy and cooperation in some of their projects and even considering the possibility of making visits. Personally guided with a cocktail at the end included, if desired. An undoubtedly extraordinary plan for lovers of good art, something that we know that De Salas' clients can boast of.
Gala Mora
DESALAS Lifestyle
