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Valencia Publishes Sorolla Loan Pact With Hispanic Society, Setting Up New Palacio Exhibition Space

The DOGV text formalizes the project’s blueprint for bringing Sorolla’s works to the Palacio de las Comunicaciones.

Overview

  • The published framework sets a minimum loan of 221 Sorolla works, with a provisional annex of 238 items, for at least four years extendable by another four.
  • A new public foundation chaired by the Generalitat will manage the venue with Hispanic Society representation, presented as the institution’s first European venue.
  • Light Art Exhibitions is proposed as the authorized operator to run daily management, with ticket revenue to the foundation and a shop and Café Huntington whose net takings are split 50/50 between HiSA and the operator.
  • The Generalitat will pay an indexed €1.15 million annual canon and fund museum upgrades at the Palacio de las Comunicaciones, with adaptation costs estimated at roughly €15–17 million.
  • Selections require validation by Blanca Pons-Sorolla and a Generalitat specialist; the Visión de España panels remain in New York, though preparatory sketches and 73 gouaches are included, and displays will rotate rather than show all works at once.