Sorolla's Portrait of Louis Comfort Tiffany Goes on View at Tiffany & Co.'s The Landmark
A painting on canvas from around 1911 by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, featuring Louis Comfort Tiffany, is currently displayed at Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan until November 29. This exhibition, in partnership with the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, showcases Tiffany amidst floral arrangements at Laurelton Hall. Additionally, it includes items from the Tiffany Archives, such as a mosaic mirror created by Tiffany Studios circa 1896. Guillaume Kientz emphasized the portrait's focus on Tiffany's artistry, while Christopher Young referred to him as a trailblazer of American Art Nouveau. Following Sorolla's return to the U.S. in 1911, Tiffany commissioned the portrait. This display aligns with the Met's "Designing the Gilded Age" exhibition, which opens on October 22.
Key facts
- The portrait is on view at The Landmark, Tiffany & Co.'s Fifth Avenue flagship in Manhattan, through November 29
- The display is a collaboration between the Hispanic Society Museum & Library and Tiffany & Co.
- Sorolla painted the oil-on-canvas portrait around 1911, showing Tiffany with palette and brush before an easel at Laurelton Hall, his Long Island estate on Cold Spring Harbor
- Tiffany Archives objects shown alongside include enameled copper works, a circa-1896 Favrile mosaic mirror by Tiffany Studios and Gold & Diamond Icons jewelry
- Tiffany acquired at least four Sorolla paintings at the artist's 1909 Hispanic Society exhibition, and Sorolla bought Tiffany Studios works for his Madrid home
- Tiffany commissioned the portrait after Sorolla returned to the United States in 1911
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens "Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany" on October 22
- The Met permanently displays a mosaic columnar entrance screen from Laurelton Hall in its American Wing
Entities
Artists
- Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Guillaume Kientz
- Christopher Young
Institutions
- Tiffany & Co.
- The Landmark
- Hispanic Society Museum & Library
- Tiffany Studios
- The Tiffany Archives
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Galerie Magazine
Locations
- New York
- United States
- Fifth Avenue
- Manhattan
- Long Island
- Cold Spring Harbor
- Madrid
- Spain