Joaquin Sorolla was very clear from day one that
Xàbia was “the best thing I know to paint”.
It was 1896 and he then was 33 years old and for
him this town “exceeds all” that he had seen so far.
In the same letter he confessed to his wife, Clotilde,
that it “is the place I dreamed of, sea and mountains,
but what a sea” .
This infatuation produced dozens of paintings that
announced Xàbia the world and are part of the
history of art.
Joaquin
Sorolla
With thanks to Xabia Tourisme and http://blog.
xabia.org/pintaria-sorolla-volviese-ahora-xabia/
Duane del Mar, Portixol Bay, Cape San Antonio ...
Sorolla painted many landscapes that we still know
and love today, in his paintings.
So what are these landscapes like today? What has
changed more than 100 years later?
Do they keep their essence? To find out the Tourist
Office selected a series of pictures and returned
to places where the painter set up the easel and
developed all his art.
“Cap Martí Island” (1905)