Sorolla, un jardín para pintar

Like few others, Joaquín Sorolla was able to capture in paintings the way light dances off water, whether on beaches, bathing bodies or in the sea. He was also a gardener, though, and his own garden in Madrid was a work of art in itself, influenced by courtyards in Seville and the Alhambra in Granada. This exhibition, whose name translates as ‘Sorolla, a garden to paint’, shows the evolution of the Valencian artist's painting while he was designing his own garden and watching it grow.

Paintings and drawings by Sorolla, photographs of his garden while he lived there, and original sculptures and tiles from the garden decor, all from the collections of the Museo Sorolla and the Fundación Museo Sorolla, make up the exhibition, which is presented in six sections : 'A garden to live. A garden to paint'; 'First garden, Seville'; 'The Andalusian courtyard'; 'Second garden. Rome and Granada'; 'The third garden. Pond and pergola'; and 'Epilogue'.