Valencia is preparing for one of the most important cultural milestones of recent decades. The city has sealed the final agreement that will allow Joaquín Sorolla’s paintings to return to Valencia from New York.
Thanks to an agreement signed in Madrid between the Valencia City Council, the Generalitat, and the Hispanic Society of America in New York, more than 200 works by the master of light will travel to the capital of the Turia before the summer.
The works will arrive in stages throughout the year and have been divided into three distinct thematic groups to facilitate their exhibition:
- Spanish Sorolla: An immersion in his roots and customs.
- American Sorolla: His time and vision of the new continent.
- Illustrious portraits: The painter’s role as a chronicler of the personalities of his time.
The agreement, signed at the Scientific, Literary, and Artistic Athenaeum of Madrid, establishes that the works will have a temporary location while the adaptation of their permanent space is completed.
The preferred location is the City Museum, although the text leaves the door open to using other municipal venues that meet the strict technical requirements.
In the long term, it is hoped that the Palacio de las Comunicaciones, the former post office building, will house these works transferred from New York.