Without shadow there is no light, and in full knowledge of this, the Sorolla Museum has put together an exhibition that showcases a less usual version of Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923), painter of a dazzling Mediterranean Sea, who at many points in the course of his life did put his vivid chromatic tones aside in favor of black: the black of tailcoats and mantillas in his portraits of people in high society, the black of death and mourning and of sordid scenes loaded with social realism, or the black of the figures in his Japonaiseries. Whether pure or nuanced, the Valencian artist used the anti-color with the same mastery as with the rest of his rich palette, as we can see for ourselves, through 27 November, at what was his home and studio in the city of Madrid.