“Mourning is easier under the sun“, writes Sorolla to a friend. He also wrote the words: ”You can only be happy if you are a painter”, a phrase that captures his essence perfectly. Because if there is one thing about this Valencian painter that no one can deny, it is his passion for his work, for painting relentlessly, even to the point of exhaustion. This year marks the 100th anniversary of his death, and with it have come a series of tributes, exhibitions and books that speak of light, travels, the Mediterranean sea, sun, reflections, water… Indeed, everything we are fond of can be found in Sorolla. And that is exactly why we are so fond of him.
But this was not always the case. There is a lesser-known Sorolla, one less expansive, less luminous. There is another Sorolla that existed
