Rocks at the Lighthouse, Biarritz by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
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Rocks at the Lighthouse, Biarritz

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida · 1906

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; sold to Stephen Carlton Clark, Sr. (died 1960), New York, 1909 [copy of c. 1909 Hispanic Society exhibition inventory, in curatorial file]. Maribel G. Blum (died February 13, 1985), Miami Beach, Fla. and Chicago, by 1975–1985 [inventory by John Keefe, Curator, Art Institute, 1975, in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1986.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Berlin, Schulte Galeries, 1907.
  • London, Grafton Galleries, May–July 1908, p. 44, no. 231, as The Lighthouse Rocks, Biarritz.
  • New York, The Hispanic Society of America, Exhibition of Paintings by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, Feb. 8–Mar. 8, 1909, p. 93, no. 30, as Rocas del Faro, Biarritz, (Rocks at the Lighthouse, Biarritz).

Literature

Published references

  • Aureliano de Beruete et al., Eight Essays on Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (New York, 1909), v. 1, p. 117 (ill.), no. 30; v. 2, p. 389, no. 30, as Rocas del Faro, Biarritz.
  • Bernardino de Pantorba, La vida y la obra de Joaquín Sorolla (Madrid, 1970), p. 189, no. 1598, as Rocas del Faro, Biarritz.
  • Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1986/7, (Chicago, 1987), p. 65.

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