![Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida - Children on the Beach, Valencia [1916] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5531/12536753274_19c1fc4646.jpg)
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida - Children on the Beach, Valencia [1916], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.
Painted on Valencia’s El Cabañal beach in 1916, the warmth of the Mediterranean sun and snap-shot-like moment of the children playing by the seashore in the present work marks the high point of Sorolla’s talents as a painter. Simultaneously drawing on the region’s classical past, and his own modern-day interest in capturing the moment, the work expresses Sorolla’s consummate ability to evoke the timeless innocence of childhood.
[Sold for £2,770,500 at Sotheby’s, London - Oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm]