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\n\tWhen Sotheby\u2019s moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum.<\/p>\n
\n\tNow, Sotheby\u2019s is leaning into that history in earnest, and with more than its usual\u00a0blockbuster, star-studded evening sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe auction house announced this week that it will launch a new exhibition initiative called \u201cIn Residence.\u201d The first of these will be presentation of three paintings by Spanish master Joaqu\u00edn Sorolla from the collection of the\u00a0Hispanic Society Museum & Library. The show, titled\u00a0\u201cIn Residence: The Hispanic Society Sorollas,\u201d opened Monday and runs through June 1 at the Breuer building.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe collaboration marks the first partnership between Sotheby\u2019s and the Hispanic Society and serves as the inaugural edition of a broader program that will invite museums to stage focused exhibitions inside the Breuer building, formerly home to the Whitney Museum and later an outpost of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, called the Met Breuer.\u00a0(The Frick Collection took up a three-year residency, from 2021\u201324, in the Breuer building while its historic home underwent renovations.)<\/p>\n
\n\tAt the center of the presentation are three works by Sorolla, whose sun-drenched paintings have long occupied a special place in the Hispanic Society\u2019s collection. Included in the exhibition are\u00a0Sea Idyll<\/em>\u00a0(1909), a luminous beach scene;\u00a0Louis Comfort Tiffany<\/em>\u00a0(1911), a portrait of the famed American designer in his Long Island garden; and\u00a0Se\u00f1ora de Sorolla in a Spanish Mantilla<\/em>\u00a0(1902), an intimate portrait of the artist\u2019s wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe arrangement offers benefits on both sides. For the Hispanic Society, the exhibition places key works from its collection before the stream of collectors, advisers, and visitors now cycling through Sotheby\u2019s Madison Avenue headquarters. For Sotheby\u2019s, the collaboration further positions the Breuer building as something closer to a hybrid cultural institution than a traditional auction house.<\/p>\n \n\tAuction houses have increasingly blurred the line between commercial and institutional space over the past decade, mounting scholarly exhibitions, publishing museum-quality catalogs, and courting curatorial prestige. Sotheby\u2019s new initiative, in a way, formalizes that shift. Visitors arriving to view multimillion-dollar consignments or attend evening sales will now also encounter masterpieces on loan from museums.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBuilding on the institutional legacy of the Breuer Building,\u00a0In Residence<\/em>\u00a0highlights our commitment to presenting extraordinary collections to a public audience,\u201d Christy Coombs, Sotheby\u2019s head of museum and corporate art group, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe timing is significant for the Hispanic Society, as it marks the centenary of Sorolla\u2019s\u00a0Vision of Spain<\/em>\u00a0mural cycle, commissioned by founder Archer M. Huntington and installed in 1926. The museum is also preparing to launch a major initiative in Valencia, Sorolla\u2019s native city, that will bring more than 200 of the artist\u2019s works that it owns to the Spanish city in September.\u00a0Meanwhile, the inclusion of\u00a0Se\u00f1ora de Sorolla in a Spanish Mantilla<\/em>\u00a0previews another upcoming Hispanic Society exhibition,\u00a0\u201cThe Mantilla: Interlacing Identities,\u201d opening in November.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis collaboration with Sotheby\u2019s represents a meaningful opportunity for us to raise awareness about the Hispanic Society Museum & Library\u2019s mission, collection, and activity in New York City and beyond,\u201d Guillaume Kientz, the Hispanic Society\u2019s director and CEO, said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/sothebys-museum-partnership-hispanic-society-sorolla-1234786089\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/article00_810x.jpg?w=810″] When Sotheby\u2019s moved into the Breuer building last year, the auction house inherited more than just a famous slab of Marcel Breuer modernism on Madison Avenue. It also inherited the ghost of a museum. Now, Sotheby\u2019s is leaning into that history in earnest, and with more than its usual\u00a0blockbuster, star-studded evening sales.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1945081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}