Published on
01/07/2026 - 15:21 GMT+2
Andrés Hurtado didn’t go to Seville looking for art. He was there for a short break, and on Saturday, at around 4.30 p.m., in the kind of unforgiving heat that gives no respite, he came across something lying on the pavement that caught his eye for the least artistic of reasons: the frame.
“I saw some lads dumping a picture in the street.” And he thought: “What a cool frame.” “To be honest, I didn’t even look at the painting, I just took it up to the hotel with me,” he told the EFE news agency. He carried it off, literally, in a shopping bag he had just bought at an Asian bazaar, unaware that he had just rescued an original Sorolla which its owners had forgotten in the middle of a lightning-fast move to their beach house.
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