Spanish artist Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s 1898 painting “Un Hebreo” will lead Bonhams 19th-Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art sale in London on Wednesday March 2, 2016. Unseen in public for more than 100 years, the landscape-format work shows the influence of the Baroque painter Jusepe de Ribera, according to Bonhams. It is expected to fetch £300,000-500,000.Bonhams director of 19th Century Paintings, Peter Rees, said, “The appearance at auction of Un Hebreo is a major event. It had previously been known only through black and white photographs. Sorolla is mainly associated with shimmering sea and beach scenes, but he was also a highly accomplished painter of portraits.Sometimes these were formal commissions but more often he preferred a freer rein, as in Un Hebreo. This moving picture, on an unusual subject for Sorolla, was painted in 1898 during an exceptionally creative period for the artist in which he completed a number of key works. It shares the ease and spontaneity of many of his well-known single figure portraits.”The painting will be available to view on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th January 2016 at Bonhams Madrid office, Núñez de Balboa no 4-1A, 28001 Madrid.
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