
Joaquín Sorolla, the sometimes audacious Spanish impressionist whose work is on show now at Madrid’s Prado museum, portrayed his country for the New York headquarters of the Hispanic Society of America nearly a century ago in oils depicting traditional, even clichéd, scenes of regional life: dancers and bullfighters in Andalucía, a bagpipe player in rural Galicia, a festival with oranges in Valencia.

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