LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.74 in. (60.30 cm.) (height) by 37.36 in. (94.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed J Sorolla B and dated 1907 (lower right); inscribed No 58 on the reverse

Exhibited:

London, Grafton Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Señor Sorolla y Bastida, May 4-July 4, 1908; The Art Institute of Chicago; City Art Museum of St. Louis, Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, February 12-April 20, 1911, no. 121 (Chicago), no. 120 (St. Louis); Probably, St. Louis, City Art Museum, Summer Exhibition, 1914 (as On the Beach and lent by Pulitzer)

Literature:

Probably, "Rare Paintings Loaned by St. Louisans to Museum," Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, vol. 1, no. 2, January 1915, p. 34; Bernardino de Pantorba, La Vida y La Obra de Joaquin Sorolla, estudio biografico y critico, 2nd edition, Madrid, 1970, p. 195, no. 1724

Provenance:

Knoedler, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1912, no. 5407, transferred to New York, no. 12952, this transaction is further confirmed by the artist's wife Clotilde's personal notebook of 1912, now in the Museo Sorolla, in which she writes of the sale of "Niña buscando mariscos 6.000 pesetas"); Probably, Joseph Pulitzer II, St. Louis, Missouri (acquired from the above); Thence by descent