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Pie de foto: Guillem Bestard i Cànaves, Sorolla pintando en San Vicente. Pollensa. Mallorca. La Esfera 23 agosto 1930

This June marked the opening of the exhibition "Travelling to Paint: Sorolla in Mallorca," organized by the Museo Sorolla and the Fundación Museo Sorolla, in collaboration with the Museo de Mallorca. This exhibition, part of the celebration of the painter's centenary, will be open to visitors until September.

The exhibition aims to showcase Sorolla's works in the very locations where they were created. Following exhibitions in San Sebastián, Toledo, La Coruña, and Valladolid, the latest stop is at the Museo de Mallorca, focusing on Sorolla's stay on the island during the summer of 1919. This trip holds special significance in his career, as the paintings from the Balearic Islands represent Sorolla's last views of the Mediterranean before illness prevented him from painting until his death three years later.

Sorolla traveled to Mallorca with his family and visited several of the island's most iconic locations, including Palma, Artà, the coast of Valldemossa, and Pollença. It was in Pollença that Sorolla painted one of the most notable series of his career, the Cala de San Vicente.

The exhibition features nine landscapes, a painting of a peasant woman, and two lesser-known Mallorcan interiors. Additionally, it includes photographs from this trip and a series of the painter's tools, providing a comprehensive glimpse into Sorolla's creative process and his time in Mallorca.