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THE
NATIONAL
GALLERY
IMMUNITY
FROM SEIZURE
Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light
The National Gallery, London, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
18 Mar 2019 - 07 Jul 2019
Immunity from Seizure
The National Gallery is able to provide immunity from seizure under part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and
Enforcement Act 2007. This Act provides protection from seizure for cultural objects from abroad on loan
to temporary exhibitions in approved museums and galleries in the UK.
The conditions are:
The object is usually kept outside the UK
It is not owned by a person resident in the UK
Its import does not contravene any import regulations
It is brought to the UK for public display in a temporary exhibition at a museum or gallery
The borrowing museum or gallery is approved under the Act
The borrowing museum has published information about the object
For further enquiries, please contact [email protected]
Protection under the Act is sought for the objects listed in this document, which are intended to form part
of the forthcoming exhibition, Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light.
Copyright Notice: no images from these pages should be reproduced without permission.
Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light
18 Mar 2019 - 07 Jul 2019
The National Gallery, London, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE
Immunity from Seizure
Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light
Protection under the Act is sought for the objects listed below:
18 Mar 2019 - 07 Jul 2019
Joaquín Sorolla (1863 - 1923)
© Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
X10048
Kissing the Relic (El beso de la reliquia)
1893
Place of manufacture: SpainOil on canvas
Object dimensions: 103.5 × 125 cm Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Lender's name and address Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Museo Plaza, 2
Bilbao
48011
Spain
Accession Number Inv. 69/228
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by the Provincial Council of Vizcaya at the Bilbao exhibition, 1894;
Donated by the City Council to the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 1913.
Source:
Blanca Pons-Sorolla and María López Fernández (eds.), Sorolla and the Paris Years, exh. cat.
(New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2016), 236, no. 1.
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Joaquín Sorolla (1863 - 1923)
2018 © Photo Archive - Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
X10047
Sewing the Sail (Cosiendo la vela)
1896
Place of manufacture: Spain Oil on canvas
Object dimensions: 222 × 300 cm
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Galleria lnternazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca' Pesaro
Lender's name and address
Fondazione Musei Civici di VeneziaPiazza San Marco 52Venice30124Italy
Accession Number Inv. 261
Provenance:
Purchased from artist at Venice exhibition for the newly-founded Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di
Ca’ Pesaro* by Venice city council for 10,000 francs, 1905.
Source: Blanca Pons-Sorolla and María López Fernández (eds.), Sorolla and the Paris Years, exh. cat. (New
York: Skira Rizzoli, 2016), 236, no. 4.
*The palace was bequeathed to the city in 1898 and was opened to the public as a Museum of Modern Art
in 1902. (source: http://capesaro.visitmuve.it/it/il-museo/la-sede-e-la-storia/il-palazzo/ accessed: 06/12/18
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Joaquín Sorolla (1863 - 1923)
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
X10054
Clotilde in a Black Dress (Clotilde con traje negro)
1906
Place of manufacture: SpainOil on canvas
Object dimensions: 186.7 × 118.7 cm
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1909 (09.71.3)
Lender's name and address
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York
NY
10028-0198
USA
Accession Number: 09.71.3
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Hispanic Society
exhibition, New York, 1909.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalogue 01/11/18:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437706
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Joaquín Sorolla (1863 - 1923)
© Museo Sorolla, Madrid
X10447
María with Mantilla (María con Mantilla)
1910
Place of manufacture: SpainOil on canvas
Object dimensions: 207 × 118 cm Madrid, Museo Sorolla, No. inv. 00902
Lender's name and address Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte España Plaza del Rey 128004 Madrid Spain
Accession Number inv. 00902
Provenance:
Sorolla’s estate, no. 82, 1929;
By descent to his daughter, María Sorolla Garcia;
By descent to Francisco Pons-Sorolla y Arnau;
Donated by him to the Museo Sorolla, 8th February 1980.
Source: Bernardino de Pantorba, La Vida y la Obra de Joaquin Sorolla (Madrid: Extensa, 1970), 143, no. 328.
Museo Sorolla: Catálogo de pintura (Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, 2006), vol. 1, 273, no. 741.
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Joaquín Sorolla (1863 - 1923)
© Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
X10044
Clotilde Strolling in the Gardens of La Granja (Clotilde paseando por los jardines de La Granja)
1907
Place of manufacture: Spain
Oil on canvas
Object dimensions: 170 × 100 cm
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
Lender's name and address
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba
La Habana, 5-402
Havana
Cuba
Accession Number Inv. 93-144
Provenance:
Purchased from artist by Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927) for $3000 at the Hispanic Society exhibition, New York, 1909;
Collection of Huntington, San Marino, California, until 1925;
Passed to Joseph Duveen, May 1925 (independent scholar Veronique Powell, in an email dated 07/11/18, suggests that this
work, along with several others, may have been passed on to Duveen by the aging Huntington after the death of Huntington’s
wife. According to Huntington’s biography, the two men had a close relationship; Duveen was Huntington’s preferred dealer
and he spent a week every year in Huntington’s San Marino home).
Property of Joseph Duveen and Duveen Brothers, New York, until May 1955;
Purchased from Duveen by José "Pepe" Genaro Ramon Gómez-Mena Vila (1883 – 1960), 22 May, 1955;
Donated to his daughter, Lidia Gómez Mena (1917-1992), and her husband, Alfonso Fanjul (1909-1980), Havana, 1955;
Appears in the opening catalogue of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba in 1955 (no. 262), possibly at this point as a
long-term deposit;
Part of collection of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba by 1959.
Sources: Some provenance is outlined in the Sorolla in America catalogue (Blanca Pons-Sorolla and Mark A. Roglán (eds.),
Sorolla and America, exh. cat. (Dallas: Meadows Museum; San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2014), 302, no. 31), though this
provenance omits the Duveen link between Huntington and Gómez Mena, and instead includes “Oscar B. Cintas, Havana” as
an intermediary owner, without dates.
Documents in the Getty Digital archives demonstrate that Cintas did not own the painting prior to its acquisition by Gómez
Mena, but rather that Duveen purchased this work, along with two other Sorollas (and several paintings by different artists)
from Huntington in 1925 (Getty Research Institute. Duveen Brothers records, 1876-1981, Client property Book 3, c. 1925-1940,
fol. 16.) Independ
The painting appears without any provenance listed in Guía de la Galería de Arte del Museo Nacional de Cuba (Havana:
Instituto Nacional de Cultura, 1955), no. 262.
* Note that this object has an incomplete provenance for the years 1933-1945.
Risk Assessment dated 09.01.2019
Immunity from Seizure
Joaquín Sorolla (1863 - 1923)
© Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
X10045
Summer (Verano)
1904
Place of manufacture: SpainOil on canvas
Object dimensions: 149 × 252 cm
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba
Lender's name and address
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba
La Habana, 5-402
Havana
Cuba
Accession Number Inv. 93-145
Provenance:
Purchased from artist by Mrs. Bryce, née María de las Mercedes González de Candamo y Iriarte (1849-1929) for 25,000 francs at the Paris exhibition, Galerie Georges Petit, 1906; Mrs. Bryce settles in the UK, 1907;Possibly by descent to Major Francis Bryce, London (1876-1951), c. 1929; Christies Sale, London, purchased by R. Davidge for 1,400 guineas, 1951; Sold via an intermediary, M. R. Schweitzer, New York (unknown date);Acquired by Lock Galleries, New York (under the title “Al Agua”, from whom it was purchased by José "Pepe" Genaro Ramon Gómez-Mena Vila (1883 – 1960), Havana, in January 1952; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Cuba, Havana by 1959.
Source: Blanca Pons-Sorolla and María López Fernández (eds.), Sorolla and the Paris Years, exh. cat. (New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2016), 237, no. 18.Blanca Pons-Sorolla, email dated 15/11/18 (who reportedly received this information from M. R. Schweitzer, 2000)Tania C. Mastrapa. “Identifying and Locating Looted Artworks from Cuba.”, p. 135- https://ascecuba.org//c/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/v19-mastrapa.pdf
The provenance between 1906 and 1951 (from Mrs. Bryce in Paris to Christies in London) is absent from publications on the painting, leaving a gap for the 1933-1945 period. It can be potentially inferred from the first owner’s family history. Mrs. Bryce (née Maria de las Mercedes de Candamo, who was then the widow of Joan Pablo Bryce, a Scottish/ Peruvian shipowner based mainly in UK who died in 1901) settled in the UK around 1907. Her son was Major Francis Bryce. When he died in 1951, he was divorced and his only heir was young (aged 13), so it is quite possible that his collection was that sold in the 1951 Christies Sale.
Unlike Clotilde Strolling, there is no suggestion that Summer was one of the paintings lent to the Museo by the private owner, Gómez Mena, but rather appropriated or “nationalised” after the Revolution and was part of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes’s collection by 1959. It appears in the 1955 opening catalogue for the Museo.
*Note that this object has an incomplete provenance for the years 1933-1945
Risk Assessment dated 09.01.2019