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JOAQUIN SOROLLA Y BASTIDA (Spanish, 1863-1923)
Estimate:
$50,000 - $100,000
Sold
$40,000
Live Auction
Important Estates | March 30th & 31st
Category
Description
Casa en la huerta. Valencia / Alquería Valenciana
oil on canvas
h. 7-1/2 w. 12-1/2 in. (18.9 x 32cm)
overall: 13-1/4 x 18 in. (framed)
Valencia, circa 1892, signed lower right, with authentication statement on verso by J. Pons-Sorolla, numbering the work as ‘No. 86-B’ in the artist’s will ('testamente'), framed

This painting will be included in the upcoming catalogue raisonné of Sorolla's work currently being prepared by Blanca Pons-Sorolla (catalog No. BPS 3706). She has viewed the painting and has issued a signed document confirming its authenticity dated March 20, 2019.
Condition
relined, small vertical scratch (1-1/4 in.) at right
Provenance
Testamentaria Sorolla, serie B - n° 86;
María Sorolla García;
Harvey Firestone, Jr., heir to the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company;
to his wife, Elizabeth Parke Firestone;
to her daughter, Anne Idabelle Ball;
to her husband, John Ball;
Estate of John F. Ball, Television and Film Production Executive, Greenwich, CT