Goya Black Paintings

 

The Black Paintings - Two Women

Goya Two Women Black Painting

The Black Paintings
Two Women
Also called "Two Young
People Laughing at a Man"

1820-23 Oil on gesso
transferred to linen
49 1/4 inches by 26 inches
125 cm x 65.5
Prado Museum, Madrid

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Are they laughing at the male figure (is it truly a male figure?) Are the two figures watching female or male? The meaning is not clear.

 

 

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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