# Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T20:46:08.631Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Spanish
- Common media: Painting, Works on paper and prints represented in auction records

## Portrait

![Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/%28Sorolla_Museum%29_-_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla_Self_portrait_1900.jpg/1280px-%28Sorolla_Museum%29_-_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla_Self_portrait_1900.jpg)
Didier Descouens · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(Sorolla_Museum)_-_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla_Self_portrait_1900.jpg

## About Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923), commonly identified as Joaquín Sorolla, was a Spanish painter known for portraits, landscapes, and large compositions with social or historical subjects. Public biographical sources particularly associate his work with people, scenery, and water observed in the intense light of Spain. This emphasis on illumination and outdoor atmosphere gives many of his paintings an immediately recognizable visual character without requiring a single movement label that the collected authority sources do not establish. Collectors may encounter formal portraits, landscape and marine subjects, sunlit figure scenes, and more ambitious narrative paintings. Sorolla's identity is supported by several international authority records, including Wikidata, Getty ULAN, IdRef, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. His continuing visibility in public auction data means that careful entity matching is important: records may use either his full name, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, or the shorter Joaquín Sorolla.

## Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts most often involve paintings, including portraits, landscapes, marine or sunlit-water subjects, figure scenes, and compositions with social or historical themes. The collected auction page also groups some records under works on paper and prints. Medium, support, dimensions, date, inscriptions, and attribution should be verified for each object rather than inferred from its subject alone.

## Market and appraisal context

Sorolla's auction results should be compared with works that align in medium, dimensions, date, subject, condition, and attribution. Provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, signatures, inscriptions, restoration, and surface quality can also affect how a lot is assessed. A portrait, landscape, marine scene, or figure composition should not be compared mechanically with a work from a different category or career period. Appraisily's collected page reports substantial public-auction coverage, but recorded results remain an incomplete view of the market. Private transactions may be absent, attribution can change, and reported totals may treat buyer premiums differently. A defensible appraisal therefore relies on closely comparable lots and direct examination rather than a single aggregate price.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q351746
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500018256
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/03147280X
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12268210t
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla_y_Bastida
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/joaquin-sorolla-y-bastida/