[1] In 1911, Sorolla met Huntington in Paris and signed a contract to paint a series of oils on life in Spain.

Each mural celebrated the landscape and culture of its region, panoramas composed of throngs of laborers and locals.

In great detail, she commented on the ethnographical background, referring to local dress and lifestyles, regional Spanish history and literature of Sorolla's paintings.

Conceived by fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, chairman of the Institute's board of directors, it displayed numerous original pieces of clothing, jewelry, sketches and photographs from the archives of the Sorolla Museum, which the artist had used or collected during his work for the paintings.

[13] This choreography, with 250 custom-made costumes, was also performed at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in 2015[14] and again at the Teatro Real in Madrid in November 2017.