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White Slave Trade, Sorolla
- Oil on linen canvas
- 100% hand-painted
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| Author: | Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida |
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| Original Title: | Trata de blancas |
| Type: | Painting |
| Style: | Luminism |
| Medium | Oil |
| Support: | Canvas |
| Year: | 1894 |
| Located: | Sorolla museum, Madrid. |
This realistic canvas depicts five young women huddled around the madame (dressed in black), in the cramped space of a train compartment. Both the theme and the execution of the work are not common in Sorolla. The realistic brushstroke with a luminist touch, painting realities of the era, is part of a style classified by experts as "social realism".
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White Slave Trade, Sorolla
Sale price$412.00 CAD
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Joaquín Sorolla
| Full Name: | Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. |
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| Birth: | 1863, Valencia, Spain. |
| Death: | 1923, Madrid, Spain. |
He was born in Valencia on February 27, 1863, in a Spain that was beginning to see light and color with new eyes. His work is the purest reflection of Spanish luminism, a movement he himself elevated to its highest expression, and of impressionism, from which he adopted freshness and chromatic vibration.
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