This lot consists of an oil on canvas painting in the style of Joaquin Sorolla y Bastidas. The lot depicts a beach landscape with two girls in the magnificent impressionist style of Sorolla.

Sorollas PortraitsAlthough formal portraiture was not Sorollas genre of preference, because it tended to restrict his creative appetites and could reflect his lack of interest in his subjects, the acceptance of portrait commissions proved profitable, and the portrayal of his family was irresistible. Sometimes the influence of Velazquez was uppermost, as in My Family (1901), a reference to Las Meninas which grouped his wife and children in the foreground, the painter reflected, at work, in a distant mirror. At other times the desire to compete with his friend John Singer Sargent was evident, as in Portrait of Mrs. Ira Nelson Morris and her children (1911). A series of portraits produced in the United States in 1909, commissioned through the Hispanic Society of America, was capped by the Portrait of Mr. Taft, President of the United States, This portrait, which was painted at the White House, is on permanent display at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (February 1863 ÃÂÂÂÃÂÃÂÂ