Valencia is currently hosting an array of artwork from one of the region’s leading artists – Joaquin Sorolla.

Presented free to the public at investment bank Bancaja’s Centro Cultural, the Valencian exhibition is making 14 of the maestro’s paintings available to Spanish audiences for the first time.

 
Having undergone a journey from New York to Spain’s third city, Sorolla’s paintings are seen as typically Spanish, capturing turn-of-the-century life and its people under the native Spanish sun.

Remeaining on exhibition until the end of March 2008, the 14 canvasses include scenes from the Holy Week in Seville, as well as images of tuna fishing at Ayamonte and the famous Elche palm grove.

The exhibit also contains a photography section showing how restoration has been carried out on the work of the popular artists – who left many of his paintings to the Spanish public on his death.

As well as providing an array of property across Spanish coastal regions, the Bancaja group – boosted by its new cultural centre – holds a wide range of Spanish artistic works, ranging from painting to sculpture.