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\n\tA word to the wise: no matter how frazzled you are while preparing to leave town for a family vacation, make sure you don\u2019t forget anything on the sidewalk when you drive away. Especially if you are the type of family that takes valuable, framed artwork on road trips.<\/p>\n
\n\tAndr\u00e9s Hurtado, a 57-year-old man from Murcia, was visiting Seville with his family when an artwork leaning against a garage door caught his eye while on a walk around the city center. He picked it up, particularly taken by the wide gold frame.<\/p>\n
\n\tUnbeknownst to Hurtado, the painting belonged to a local family and had been reported missing on Saturday, June 27. The owners, accustomed to taking a beloved artwork with them on vacation, had accidentally left it behind, and by the time they realized their mistake, it was gone.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn printed signs posted by the owners, the artist wasn\u2019t named; the missing object was simply described as \u201ca painting of great sentimental value\u201d with a request to contact the police with any information. The owners also offered a reward.<\/p>\n
\n\tMeanwhile, Hurtado and his family returned home to Murcia where, according to The Guardian<\/em>, he used AI to research his find, soon realizing that the seaside painting of two sailboats was likely a valuable artwork by the 19th century Spanish Impressionist Joaqu\u00edn Sorolla. (The large signature in the painting\u2019s bottom right corner could have also tipped him off.) Sorolla had a monographic exhibition at the Prado in 2009, at which point he was described as being one of \u201cthe most internationally known Spanish artists of his day and one of the key figures in the history of Spanish art.\u201d Many museums around the world, including the Met, the Getty, and the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, own examples of his genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits. There is also a museum dedicated to Sorolla (and his artist relatives) in Madrid, though it is temporarily closed for renovations.<\/p>\n \n\tOnce Hurtado realized that the painting had not in fact been abandoned, he arranged for the police to return it to its rightful owners, who have a \u201csmall present\u201d as a reward. Presumably, it will be of less value than a painting by Sorolla. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/spanish-man-inadvertently-swipes-valuable-painting-sidewalk-seville-1234791100\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1280px-Joaquin_Sorolla_y_Bastida_-_La_playa_de_Valencia.jpg?w=1024″] A word to the wise: no matter how frazzled you are while preparing to leave town for a family vacation, make sure you don\u2019t forget anything on the sidewalk when you drive away. Especially if you are the type of family that takes valuable, framed artwork on road trips. Andr\u00e9s Hurtado, a […]<\/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-2024585","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\/2024585","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=2024585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}