Sorolla. Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings

Great-granddaughter of painter Joaquín Sorolla Bastida, Blanca Pons-Sorolla Ruiz de la Prada is an independent researcher and renowned specialist in the work of Joaquín Sorolla. With a diploma in Art and Interior Architecture from the IADE International School, she has worked with architects such as Javier Feduchi and Rafael Moneo. She has been a patron of the Sorolla Museum Foundation since 1992 and was chair of its Standing Committee (2012-2021). She is the author of the most comprehensive biography of the work of the painter Joaquín Sorolla, on whom she has also given numerous lectures, written articles and collaborated on exhibitions, as well as curating numerous exhibitions. Since 1990, she has also been responsible for an ambitious project to which she has devoted more than three decades of research, whose results are now to be published in four volumes, chronologically integrating the approximately 4,200 works (including oil paintings, watercolors and gouaches) that make up Sorolla's pictorial output.