Sorolla and Fashion

This publication includes the exhibition that the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum organizes, in collaboration with the Sorolla Museum, dedicated to the influence of fashion on the work of Joaquín Sorolla. Curated by Eloy Martínez de la Pera, the exhibition brings together around seventy paintings, from museums and private national and international collections, some of them never publicly exhibited, along with a selection of accessories and dresses from the time. A great lover of fashion, Sorolla is the perfect chronicler of the changes in clothing trends and style in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works bring together an evocative catalog of dresses, jewelery and accessories, enhanced by his loose and vigorous line, and special attention is paid to the magnificent female portraits that the painter made between the years 1890 and 1920.