Sorolla in private
Joaquín Sorolla
Art and family, Sorolla’s two great passions, come together in an exclusive and limited edition of 2,998 copies featuring 72 drawings. Sorolla in Private is a window into the painter’s intimate world, composed of portraits and family scenes.
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Designed as a lectern, the exhibition-case features a methacrylate top that holds the volumes of the Art Book and Study Book, along with an art print and the Correspondence. These elements reflect the artist’s personal life through drawings of portraits and family scenes, as well as letters exchanged between Joaquín and Clotilde.
The Art Book showcases 71 drawings, organized into chapters that introduce each member of the Sorolla family. This illustrated diary offers a glimpse into the artist’s private life, capturing moments of maternal care, childhood games, afternoons of sewing, napping, reading, studying, and more.
Alongside these carefully crafted graphic pieces, die-cut and reproduced at their original size, as well as attached with three glue points, goes the art print Estudio al natural, a portrait of Clotilde that once graced the couple’s bedroom.
The Study Book serves as a platform for experts who delve into Sorolla’s art and life, including an analysis of the drawings featured in the piece. Correspondence: Three Decades of Love unveils 210 letters between Sorolla and his wife, Clotilde’s letters left unpublished until now.
PRODUCTION PROCESS
Handstitched with cotton thread, both the Art Book and Study Book are bound using traditional craftsmanship.
A detail from Sorolla’s 1906 oil painting Instantánea, Biarritz, printed on canvas, welcomes the reader into the Art Book.
Three glue points attach the 71 die-cut drawings to the book, reproduced at their original size, numbered, and stamped with the Museo Sorolla seal on the reverse side.
A family photograph introduces the Study Book, printed in high quality with a soft-touch, anti-fingerprint matte laminated finish.
A previously unpublished portrait of Clotilde serves as the exquisite image of the art print, reproduced at its original size with numbering and copyright details on the back.
The art print Estudio al natural is stored and protected in a blue-toned cardboard case, with the drawing’s title printed in white ink.
Correspondence: Three Decades of Love is a handcrafted volume featuring swiss binding, a flexible cover, and a cloth-covered spine.
The case is designed to resemble a display stand, made of painted iron and methacrylate, organizing all the elements of the work with individual separators.
Acting as a window into Sorolla’s private world, the case features a front display with the artist’s signature. A system of magnets ensures a secure and elegant closure.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
ART BOOK
- Bilingual edition (Spanish and English).
- 168 pages on 200 g Tintoretto Gesso paper, 2/2 printing.
- Canvas-bound cover printed in 4 colors + varnish. Hardcover sewn with white cotton thread and rounded spine.
- 71 plates on 100 g Old Mill Bianco paper, all die-cut, printed in 4 colors and digitally numbered on the reverse. Glued to the volume with three glue points.
- Dimensions: 45 × 35.4 × 4 cm. Volume weight: 4.060 kg.
STUDY BOOK
- Bilingual edition (Spanish and English).
- 188 pages: interior paper + endpapers on 170 g Tatami White paper, volume 1.27. Printed 5/5 colors + varnish.
- Cover made of 350 g graphic board, printed in 1 color with a matte soft-touch anti-fingerprint lamination.
- Dimensions: 45.5 × 35 × 2.4 cm. Volume weight: 3.060 kg.
ART PRINT
- Print of Clotilde’s image on 100 g Old Mill Bianco paper, printed in 4 colors and digitally numbered on the reverse.
- Presented in a square cardboard tube lined with 130 g dark blue Geltex LS, text printed in white with UV ink.
- Print dimensions: 85 × 44 cm.
CORRESPONDENCE: THREE DECADES OF LOVE
- Bilingual edition (Spanish and English).
- 336 pages on 100 g ivory PQ paper, volume 1.5. Printed in 1/1 Pantone 5405U.
- Cover in 300 g dark blue Geltex LS, printed in 1 color and dry-stamped. Swiss binding.
- Dimensions: 14.1 × 21 × 2.6 cm.
- Volume weight: 0.52 kg.
EXHIBITION-CASE
- Lectern-shaped case with interior compartments to hold the books. Made of 2.5 cm methacrylate.
- Back cover with magnetic closure.
- Laser-engraved front with J. Sorolla’s signature.
- Dimensions: 26.5 ×n 53 × 40 cm (height × width × depth). Case weight: 12.51 kg.
- Approximate total weight of the collection: 25.8 kg.
