Joaquin Sorolla and his inexhaustible facet as a draftsman

The best version of Joaquin Sorolla’s facet as a cartoonist shines through in the magnificent watercolor that will be tendered on December 1.

The technical virtuosity that Joaquin Sorolla achieved with his pictorial work established him as the painter of light par excellence. However, the scope of his work goes far beyond his well-known canvases in which he captured like few others the lighting effects of the Mediterranean. In this sense, the Valencian artist’s facet as a cartoonist represents a valuable testimony of the evolution that his work underwent, revealing in it the key aspects that marked his artistic personality. Far from considering it a secondary manifestation, Sorolla builds his production as a painter and draftsman in parallel, evolving at the same time both in terms of technical and thematic aspects. With some exceptions, his drawings are not usually preparatory, but, as in the case at hand, they are in themselves true works of art.