Goya Black Paintings

 

The Black Paintings - Asmodea

ASMODEA

The Black Paintings
Asmodea

also called
Asmodeus
Fantastic Vision

1820-23 Oil on gesso transferred to linen
123 cm x 165 cm
48 1/2" x 104 1/4"
Museo del Prado Madrid Spain

ASMODEUS

(Preliminary oil sketch below)

FANTASTIC VISION
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"Despite its nightmare imagery, thyis is a radiantly beautiful painting. It is infused with golden tones, interspersed with blue-silver, and punctuated with two isolated areas of red. The massive rock appears hazy and insubstantiated beside the solid mass of the two figures flying by. It is not clear whether the two soldiers are shooting at them or at the distant horsemen." Patricia Wright , from her book Goya: Eyewitness Art, published by Dorling Kindersley 1993, page 52.

 

Goya's the "Black Paintings"
Atropos (The Fates)
Goat

Fight with Cudgels

Two Women

Men Reading

Old Men

Asmodea

Old Men Eating

Saturn

La Leocadia
Writings about the Black Paintings
The Black Paintings
De Salas on the Black Paintings
Lubow on the Black Paintings



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