Born March 30, 1746 – Died April 16, 1828. Spanish painter applauded in art history as the transition personality between the Old Masters and modern art. Court painter to the Spanish Crown, Goya pursued personal projects in paint, drawings and etchings in which he chronicled national historical events and carefully articulated a critique of Spanish, and then European ideals, society, morals and religious institutions.
Goya News
Last Updated December 8, 2024
Old Master paintings auction "padded with Goya print sales" – Art Newspaper
Sotheby’s raised a total of £24.2m (with fees) with six lots unsold, an improvement on last December’s £19.4m. However, the result was still well down on the £32.7m achieved in December 2022, and this week’s sale was padded out with prints by Rembrandt and Goya. Yet there was noticeably more energy in the bidding both at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, particularly online. "I’m getting happier. There’s more action," says the Geneva-based Old Masters dealer Salomon Lilian. "There’s so much more money being made in the world through things like stocks and Bitcoin," Lilian adds, explaining the change in mood..."
Strolling through Spain's world class museum
Story at Sydney Morning Herald
Profile of the Museo del Prado with a mention of the Goya collection along with a photo of Saturn Devouring His Son on the wall with a visitor in the shot, which helps to give a sens eof the size of the famous "Black Painting."
Columbus Museum of Art features "Goya Visions of Flesh and Blood" film – The Lantern – Nov 20, 2024
Website of the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Their page about the film Goya Visions of Flesh and Blood.
Goya in Greece - second half of 2025 at the new third floor of the National Gallery-Museum of Alexandros Soutsos in Athens – iefimerida
Upcoming activities for 2025 include an exhibition of 80 etchings on paper and watercolor by Francisco Goya, part of the 'Los Caprichos' series dated to 1797-1798, that belong to the Gallery. The Gallery's series is the only one to be publicized during Goya's life. It was printed in 1803 and bought in 1962 during the directorship of Marinos Kalligas. The exhibit will run from December 2024 to September 2025, and is curated by Katerina Tavantzi.
Website of National Gallery Greece
Google Map of the National Gallery location
LSU Museum exhibit of Rembrandt, Goya and Dürer "The Marvel of Old Masters" – The Advocate – Nov 8, 2024
This exhibition presents over 60 engravings, etchings, and woodcuts by three master printmakers: Rembrandt, Goya, and Dürer, offering a rare chance to see these works up close..."
Google Map location of the museum
Shaw Center for the Arts
100 Lafayette St, Baton Rouge, LA 70801
Goya event at the Ateneo de Madrid
The Ateneo de Madrid is a prestigious cultural and intellectual institution located in Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1835, it is known as a key center for debate, education, and the promotion of arts, sciences, and literature.
A discussion of micro-signatures and related matieral
"The Myth of Goya: The Calligraphic Secret"
Participants: Daniel José Carrasco de Jaime
Presides: Pedro López
Presented by: Ana Maestro
Date: 31.10.2024
Time: 19:00
Location: Sala Larra. Calle Prado 21 – Google Map
C. del Prado, 21, Centro, 28014 Madrid, Spain
Website of the Ateneo de Madrid
About Daniel José Carrasco de Jaime:
Daniel José Carrasco de Jaime is an art historian and a recognized expert in the works of Francisco de Goya. He holds a degree in Art History and a Master's in Museology from the University of Granada. Carrasco de Jaime has dedicated more than a decade to independent research on ancient painting, particularly focusing on the life and works of Goya. His research challenges traditional perspectives on Goya's art, presenting alternative theories, especially in his notable work "G.O.Y.A. Gnóstico Oriental y Arquitecto, Gran Oriente y Aragón", which explores Goya's potential connections to esoteric and Masonic influences.
In addition to his research, Carrasco de Jaime has authored numerous articles in specialized journals and written books on prominent historical figures like Diego Velázquez. He is also the founder of Valorytasación, a company that provides art valuation and certification services, with a focus on forensics and the scientific analysis of artworks. His contributions are particularly valued in the private art market, where there is a high demand for expert appraisals of historical paintings
"Searching for Goya" flamenco exhibition coming to Dallas, Texas
September 2024: Story at Dallas News
Most of the sections of Searching for Goya begin and sometimes end with a tableaux mimicking one of the paintings, many of them from Goya’s Disasters of War series. The piece concludes with an intense solo by Barrio, whom former New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay once characterized as more marvelous than any current ballet star..."
Why are Goya, Frida Kahlo and Da Vinci still revered today?
Story at Yahoo News
Three Spanish palaces with Goya art that you can visit – UK The Star
Article discusses Goya art in collections at the Palacio de Liria, Madrid, also other Madrid locations with collections containing work of other famous artists.
The "I Saw It: Francisco de Goya, Printmaker" exhibit
Exhibit at the Norton Simon Museum April 19 – August 5, 2024
Google Map of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CAThe exhibition’s title—in Spanish, Yo lo vi—derives from Goya’s own inscriptions for two of his prints. In the literal sense, it conveys Goya’s engagement with printmaking as a way in which to chronicle and remark on the history and culture of his country and his relationship to it. Figuratively, the title acknowledges the artist as a visionary and as an inventor of caprices, in which his satirical and even strange images capture attention and appeal to the viewer’s emotions..."
Review at LA Times of the "I Saw It: Francisco de Goya, Printmaker" exhibit
Story at LA Times MSN
Article titled: "Goya gave Frankenstein's monster his Hollywood face. Now this museum shows the artist's larger power"
As an artist, Goya ranks as the virtual definition of social consciousness...."
Another review at the Wall Street Journal [Paywall]
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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
