F.A.Q.
Goya Site F.A.Q.
Where did the site come from?
This site began in 1997, produced "for fun" (if this much work can be called just 'fun'!) by Erik Weems.
Goya Promotion/News
If you have a Goya-related item to publicize, write to us at erik @erikweems.com.
You have (possibly) an "Original Goya"
We receive many e-mails telling us that a Goya has been found. We are not experts and cannot verify original paintings as authentic Goyas.
If you need the services of an expert in regards to verifying a painting, I suggest contacting museums and auction houses (like Sothebys, or Christies) and having their staff consider your images. Include good, clear photographs.
However, if you want to show us your image, please do. Our opinion is not worth that much, but you can get it for free if we can examine the image of your "Goya."
Special thanks to
Isaac Ferreira for his help,
Knopf Random House Books,
Abbeville Books,
R.H. of Miami Florida,
The Algria Family,
The Paul Striker Family,
Robert Hughes,
Dr Sarah Symmons,
Fred Licht,
and Teej.
Goya's the "Black Paintings"
La Quinta de Goya – Goya's home in Spain and location where he made the Black Paintings
Writings about the Black Paintings
De Salas on the Black Paintings
AMAZON
Goya The Terrible Sublime - Graphic Novel - (Spanish Edition) - Amazon
"From this headlong seizure of life we should not expect a calm and refined art, nor a reflective one. Yet Goya was more than a Nietzschean egoist riding roughshod over the world to assert his supermanhood. He was receptive to all shades of feeling, and it was his extreme sensitivity as well as his muscular temerity that actuated his assaults on the outrageous society of Spain." From Thomas Craven's essay on Goya from MEN OF ART (1931).
"...Loneliness has its limits, for Goya was not a prophet but a painter. If he had not been a painter his attitude to life would have found expression only in preaching or suicide." From Andre Malroux's essay in SATURN: AN ESSAY ON GOYA (1957).
"Goya is always a great artist, often a frightening one...light and shade play upon atrocious horrors." From Charles Baudelaire's essay on Goya from CURIOSITES ESTRANGERS (1842).
"[An] extraordinary mingling of hatred and compassion, despair and sardonic humour, realism and fantasy." From the foreword by Aldous Huxley to THE COMPLETE ETCHINGS OF GOYA (1962).
"His analysis in paint, chalk and ink of mass disaster and human frailty pointed to someone obsessed with the chaos of existence..." From the book on Goya by Sarah Symmons (1998).
"I cannot forgive you for admiring Goya...I find nothing in the least pleasing about his paintings or his etchings..." From a letter to (spanish) Duchess Colonna from the French writer Prosper Merimee (1869).
GOYA : Los Caprichos - Dover Edition - Amazon
