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Luigi Frugone 1953 Genova - legato

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin

GAM 1589

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 45; Larghezza: 75

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The painting depicts some fishermen dragging their boat ashore after a long day at sea, with the late evening sun casting long shadows. In the early 20th century, Sorolla's brushstrokes become looser, quicker and more full-bodied, and he builds the image by zones of light and shadow, moved by a thick, serpentine mark, according to a painting style that puts patches of colour before drawing. In ‘Return from Fishing’, signed and dated 1904, the artist achieves vibrant chromatic effects thanks to a palette in which ochre, blue and white colours chase one another in every element of the representation; the chromatic and formal balance of the composition is animated by the vast portion of shadow cast by the figures and the boat on the seashore in contrast to the glare of the light on the water and the other parts of the painting.