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The Black Paintings - Cudgels

Goya Cudgels
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The Black Paintings
Fight with Cudgels
also called
Duel with Cudgels


1820 – 1823 Oil on plaster
48 1/4" inches x 104 1/2 inches
123 cm x 266 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid


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"Here are two men – possibly brothers – are shown fighting with heavy cudgels – slowly, rhythmically, as though they are driving a post. Their legs disappear into the ground, like Goya's Colossus, yet they appear wedded to the land and so their fight must be to the death. Bitter clashes between monarchists and liberals in northern Spain at this time imply that Goya may have intended this painting as an allegory of civil war."
Patricia Wright, Eyewitness Art; Goya, Dorling Kindersley, London, 1993, page 49
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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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