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Some 460,000 museumsgoers visited “Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923),” which closed on Sunday after opening on May 26. The show, the artist’s first major retrospective since a 1963 exhibition at Madrid’s Casón del Buen Retiro, featured 102 paintings culled from the Prado’s permanent collection and borrowed from international institutions. Those numbers surpass even the total for last year's well-received "Goya in Times of War," which drew 430,000 visitors, according to the Spanish press.

Sorolla’s reputation in academic circles has soared in recent decades as some scholars have positioned him as an heir to the tradition of classical Spanish painting that runs from Velázquez through to Goya. Now it seems that the viewing public has confirmed his importance.

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