The State extends the guarantee of 41 works of Sorolla, secured at 101 million, exhibited in the real collections

The State has extended the state guarantee of 41 Sorolla works presented in the Gallery of the Royal National Heritage Collections on the occasion of the centenary of the death of the Valencian painter. The 41 canvases They have been insured at 101 million euros, according to the Official State Gazette (BOE).

The exhibition ‘Sorolla, one hundred years of modernity’ It was inaugurated in October 2024 and its closure was planned this February. However, due to the large influx of public-more than 80,000 visitors from its opening-the organization has decided Return of the works in its place of origin with a deadline May 30.

Among the insured works are ‘Children in the Sea, Playa de Valencia’ (1908), ‘After the bathroom’ (1904), ‘Nude woman’ (1902), ‘Children bathing. Valencia. Sol de Aura ‘(1909),’ Half at the beach of Valencia ‘(1904) and’ Portrait of Elena with black hat ‘.

The exhibition is organized by National Heritage and Light Art Exhibitions in collaboration with the Sorolla Museum and the Sorolla Museum Foundation. 77 representative paintings of all phases of the artist’s production and its main themes meet. Many are among the most important and of higher quality and some of them rarely or have never been seen before in Spain.

The works come from the institutions that treasure the best collections on the painter, in addition to the Sorolla Museum and the Sorolla Museum Foundation, the Hispanic Society of America, the Prado Museum, the Musée D’Orsay, and also of national and international private collections , including some of the United States or Mexico.

The exhibition, curated by Blanca Pons-Sorolla, Consuelo Luca de Tena and Enrique Varela Agüí, highlights the validity and modernity of Sorolla’s work, maintaining its actuality one hundred years after his death.