Sorolla painted directly in the open air at La Granja, the Alcazar in Seville, the Alhambra and Generalife in Granada and at his house in Madrid. These are paintings in which we can observe the artists' interest in portraying the qualities of light and shade and different watery reflections by means of a sketch-like technique based on the use of very loose brushstrokes and striking colours. Contents: Joaquin Sorolla (1863-1923) - Blanca Pons-Sorolla La Alhambra que visito Sorolla - M.ª Mar Villafranca Jimenez Jardines ultimos - Tomas Llorens Tiempo eterno: instantaneas fugaces. El jardin de Joaquin Sorolla - Ana Luengo and David Ruiz Lopez. Catalogue: Earth; Water; Patios; Gardens; Sorolla's garden AUTHOR: Born in Madrid in 1948, Blanca Pons-Sorolla is the great-granddaughter of Joaquin Sorolla. In 1968 she was awarded a Diploma in Art and Interior Architecture by the International School of Art and Interior Design (I.A.D.E.) Blanca then went on to qualifiy as a speech therapist through the Rehabilitation Chair at the Faculty of Medicine in Madrid. Coinciding with her activities linked to deaf people, in 1980 she began researching the life and work of her great-grandfather, Joaquin Sorolla, of her grandmother, Maria Sorolla Garcia, and her grandfather, Francisco Pons Arnau, working alongside her father, Francisco Pons-Sorolla. As of 1986, they began the following projects: catalogue raisonneof the work of Joaquin Sorolla, cataloguing of the work of Francisco Pons Arnau and cataloguing of the work of Maria Sorolla Garcia. As of 1990, she became Head of the Itemised Sorolla Catalogue and an appraiser of Sorolla's work. Member of the Sorolla Museum Foundation Trust and Member of the Permanent Council since 1992. Since 2010 she has served as Chairwoman of the Standing Committee. In addition to numerous articles in art magazines and exhibition catalogues, she has published the most comprehensive biography regarding the painter, Joaquin Sorolla. Vida y obra (Joaquin Sorolla: Life and Work) (2001), as well as a new monographic work in Spanish and English entitled Joaquin Sorolla (2005). SELLING POINTS: ?Features the full collection of paintings of gardens by Sorolla in his lifetime ?Text is written by Sorolla's great-grandaughter, Blanca Pons Sorolla, who is in charge of the collection ?Includes an extended chronology ILLUSTRATIONS: 150 colour 710 b/w
