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NEWS ARCHIVE 2

Revolutionary Goya Authentication work with "micro-signatures"
Magazine article on the authentication work of Professor Antonio Perales Martinez of Spain. Reprinted with permission from Subastas Magazine here.

Goya Film back on
The Saul Zaentz Goya film that has been off-and-on for some ten years is back in the news with a proposed production starting in Fall 2005. Natalie Portman is apparently signed for a starring role. A page on Goya films is here.

Goya Parody at artnet.com
A funny take on Goya's "author portrait" from Los Caprichos appeared in a photograph by Yasumasa Morimura at artnet.com. Thepage at artnet.com is here, and a screen shot of the image is here

New page on the Alegría Family Goya painting
A possible unknown Goya painting has come to my attention. Page with picture is here.

Updated News on the Striker Family "Portrait of Josepha Goya"
We received a note from Mr. Striker and have updated the page on his painting here.

30 Goya pieces on paper missing from Finnish Gallery
Entertainment.Africa.com reports a story about missing Goya etchings here.

Goya's "Bandits Attacking a Coach" part of Cocaine seizure
The Kansas City Star has a story on the bizarre cocaine smuggling scheme of a Saudi Prince:

After the cocaine was seized, according to court records, [Prince] Clemente offered the Colombian suppliers the masterworks, "Bandits Attacking a Coach" an oil by Francisco de Goya, and "Bust of a Young Woman" a portrait by Tsuguharu Foujita, to cover the loss.

The U.S. government is seeking forfeiture of the paintings, said to be worth more than $1 million

The story at the Kansas City Star is here. (Registration required)

Disparates etching exhibit opens
The North Wales Daily Post has a notice of an exhibit opening of Goya's Disparates etchings here.

New and updated pages
Young Woman with Fan, Family of Charles IV, and Family Infante Don Luis
Andrè Malraux & Goya's Caprichos
An excerpt from Andrè Malraux's essay on Goya & the Caprichos from 1957.

Black Paintings updated with special section
Atropos added here. Saturn updated here. Fight with Cudgels added here. Two Women updated here. The Goat updated here. Men Reading updated here. Old Men Eating updated here.

Is It A Goya?
Images of a supposed Goya original found in Europe.

Goya Books
Expanded reviews of Fred Licht's Goya an Patricia Wrights Eyewitness Art: Goya

Norton Museum Exhibit
The Norton Art Museum in Palm Beach, Florida (United States) will be hosting the traveling exhibit Spain in the Age of Exploration. It includes Goya paintings. (Also works by Bosch, Titian, Rubens, Velázquez, and Bernini) Page at the museum web site here.

Interview with Goya Author Sarah Symmons
We have a short internet interview with Dr. Sarah Symmons. Her official web site is here.

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The Zaentz/Forman Film on Goya
It's not exactly good news, but we have an update on the effort by the maker of the 1984 Mozart bio-film (Amadeus) to make one on Goya.

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Is It A Goya?

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3 Unpublished Goya
Paintings purchased by the Prado
2004
From the news release at the Prado Museum web site:
"The Holy Family, Tobias and the Angel and The Young Saint John the Baptist in the Desert have been acquired by the Spanish State for the Museo del Prado. They were donated in lieu of tax by Caja Madrid. These three recently rediscovered works represent an important contribution to the relatively unknown and unstudied area of Goya's activities as a painter of religious subjects. "

Page about this at the Prado Museum web site here.

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Goya "Black Paintings"
in dispute over authenticity
Juan Jose Junquera, a professor
of art history at Complutense University in Madrid,
says: ''These are fake paintings.''
Other Art Scholars weigh in.

New York Times online article here.
Art & Antiques article here.

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Striker Family Goya
Striker Family "Portrait of an
Unknown Woman" probable
Goya painting of Josepha Bayeu

1785 painting possible portrait of Goya's wife
Striker Family Goya
More information here.

Auction page (on Ebay) here.

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Michael Nyman's
"Facing Goya,"
Minimalist Opera reviewed at Calendar Live
" This is an opera as chock-full of arguments about the nature of artistic genius and the intrusion of science as they have evolved since Goya's death in 1828 as it is about the ideas reflected in Goya's work. "Goya saw Hitler before Hitler saw Goya!" is the art banker's most memorable line." More here.

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Toronto Star Article on
Goya-Manet-Valesquez here

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Cover to the exhibit catalog

Goya "Images of Women"
Exhibit opens in
Washington DC
National Gallery of Art
My review here.
Washington Post review HERE.
National Review Online HERE.

West Building of the National Gallery of Art
March 10 through June 2, 2002.

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