“As the writer Thomas Ybarra related, following one of his many interviews with the artist in New York:

“In everything he does and says, Señor Sorolla gives evidence of that joyous inner self which find constant expression in his sparkling, sun-bathed canvases, in the rollicking beach-children of Valencia …the present painting depicts three young sisters, holding hands on the water’s edge; it sensitively captures a mixture of trepidation, exuberance and sisterly affection…The composition is photographically cropped, with no horizon line, and one girl skipping into the picture plane from the left, balancing the more static pose of her sisters who contemplate the eddies and waves at their feet. The scene is tenderly and naturalistically observed, throwing into sharp focus the symbiotic relationship between man and nature, and evoking the contrast between the fragility and innocence of childhood and the latent power of nature. The wet sand has a profound sheen, evoked in blacks and purples, which contrasts with the lighter tones of the girls’ clothing and the agitated waters which fill most of the canvas. The scene is viewed from above, again as if viewed through a camera lens, reinforcing the sense of raking perspective and depth lent by the diagonal of the water line and the cresting waves which balance the composition in the background. Sorolla has evoked the water rushing down and forwards towards the viewer, from which one almost instinctively draws back, instilling almost the same sense of imbalance conveyed by the three young children. Sorolla translates a naturalism which reflects a deep understanding of the elements and of children, and the reaction of each to the other, resulting in a painting of extraordinary luminosity, which is intimate, majestic, yet immediately accessible and engaging.”

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