Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes Libri

English, French (translation)

This exhibition presents an extensive collection of Goya's artwork, featuring key pieces from private collections that have never been displayed before. Co-produced with the Fondation Beyeler, it offers a rare opportunity to explore the depth of Goya's influence and creativity, showcasing his masterpieces outside of Spain.

The dazzling range and scope of the great 19th century Spanish painter is suggested in works ranging from court paintings of nobility to genre scenes and fantastic images of monsters.

1970. Paperback Edition. 39 pages. Illustrated paper cover. Contains colour and black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout.Pencil markings to half title page. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and curling to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.

Goya--the name alone evokes countless masterpieces, both painted and printed: the raw and brutal "Third of May 1808," the nightmarish "Caprichos" etchings (with the famous motto, "The sleep of reason produces monsters"), the compellingly erotic "Nude Maja" and "Clothed Maja," the savage "Disasters of War" series and, of course, the late black paintings, with their murky forebodings of public unrest and private turmoil. Although Goya's influence on his contemporaries was minimal (eclipsed as he was at the time by artists trained in the classical style of David and Ingres), it can now be traced clearly from Manet through Picasso to Surrealism, Polke, the Chapman brothers and on. Nobody expressed the ravages of warfare and the extremes of human experience like Goya; it made him the envy of Picasso, who, as a young artist, copied his signature over and over, as though to absorb the personality and abilities of his one supreme influence. And it is perhaps the wildly imaginative freedoms of Goya's late work that has kept him so contemporary--that, and the palpable emotion in his brushwork, so full of impact and sensation. Here, Jose Gudiol, renowned author of essays and monographs on Velazquez, El Greco and Spanish art, provides a serious introduction to the massive subject that is Goya.

Joan Sureda nos propone una visión renovada y rigurosa del gran artista español a través de dos recorridos visuales y literarios un estudio cronológico y un análisis transversal de los grandes temas comunes en la obra de Goya (la guerra, la mujer, la fiesta, el poder, la religión, etc.…)