Little Elena at her Desk

Year 1898

Medium oil on canvas

Dimensions 90 x 83 cm; 35 3/8 x 32 5/8 in.

Signed and dated Signed in the lower left-hand corner “J. Sorolla 1898”

About the artwork

Little Elena at her Desk is an artwork by JOAQUÍN SOROLLA Y BASTIDA, dated 1898. The work is executed in oil on canvas. Its recorded dimensions are 90 x 83 cm; 35 3/8 x 32 5/8 in. . View the artwork and contact Colnaghi for further information.

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Provenance

Elena Sorolla García, artist’s daughter;
Private collection.

Literature

Aureliano de Beruete et al., Ocho ensayos sobre Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, 2 vols., Oviedo, Nobel, 2009, vol. 1, p. 196.
La edad dichosa. La infancia en la pintura de Sorolla, Madrid, Palacios y Museos, 2022, p. 109, cat. No. 23.
Bernardino de Pantorba, La vida y la obra de Joaquín Sorolla, Madrid, Mayfe, 1953 (second edition 1970), p. 134.
Blanca Pons-Sorolla, Sorolla. Vida y obra, Madrid, Fundación de Apoyo a la Historia del Arte Hispánico, 2001, pp.160, 162, 180, 378, fig. 71.

Exhibitions / Fairs

National Exhibition of Fine Arts, special room dedicated to Sorolla, Madrid, 1901.
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 1906.
Berlin, Düsseldorf and Cologne, 1907. Grafton Galleries, London, 1908.
International Exhibition of Art, Rome, 1911. La edad dichosa. La infancia en la pintura de Sorolla, Sorolla Museum, Madrid, 1 February – 19 June 2022; Centro Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, 15 July – 13 November 2022.

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