The essayist Émile Bergerat deemed Fortuny the only artist to succeed in fixing the sun on his canvases, which he described as having more light in them than the sky itself. Santiago Alcolea, director of the Institut Amatller d’Art Hispànic in Barcelona, will discuss the Meadows Museum’s new acquisition Beach at Portici which represents the apex of Fortuny’s research into the painting of sunlight and is a masterwork among a select group of paintings in which the artist turned toward subjects from his personal life. Left unfinished at his death in November of 1874, Beach at Portici is Fortuny’s last testament in paint and his artistic legacy.
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