FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
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ID 1470338
Lot 326 | FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
Estimate value
120000GBP £ 120 000 – 180 000
Los Caprichos
the complete set of eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving
1797-98
on laid paper, without watermark
a fine, uniform set from the First Edition
published by the artist, Madrid, 1799, in an edition of approximately three hundred copies
very good to fine impressions printed in dark sepia
printing sharply, with great contrasts and brightly wiped highlights, with the scratch on plate 45
the sheets loose, with wide margins
some minor foxing, otherwise in very good condition
Plates 21,4 x 15,2 cm. (8 ½ x 6 in.) (and similar)
Sheets 28,8 x 19,3 cm. (11 1/3 x 7 2/3 in.) (and similar)(80)
Provenance
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern.
Acquired from the above, circa 1990-95; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
L. Delteil, Le peintre graveur illustré: Francisco Goya, Paris, 1922, nos. 38-117.
T. Harris, Goya - Engravings and Lithographs - Catalogue raisonné, Oxford, 1964, nos. 36-115, pp. 70-158.
W. Hofmann (ed.), Goya – Das Zeitalter der Revolutionen, exh. cat., Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1980.
A. E. Pérez Sánchez & E. A. Sayre (eds.), Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Museo del Prado, Madrid; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989.
A. E. Pérez Sánchez & J. Gállego, Goya – The Complete Etchings and Lithographs, Munich & New York, 1995.
M. P. McDonald, Renaissance to Goya - Prints and Drawings from Spain, exh. cat., British Museum, London, 2012, p. 234-273.
S. Loeb Stepanek, F. Ilchmann, J. A. Tomlinson (eds.), Goya - Order & Disorder, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014.
M. P. McDonald, Goya's Graphic Imagination, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February - May 2021, pp. 98-131.
Exhibited
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Verhext – Phantastische Graphik aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, November 1997 – March 1998 (no cat.).
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Mit dem inneren Auge sehen – Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, September 2016 – January 2017, no. 12 & 13, pp. 38-39 (ill.) & p. 75 (pl. 1 and 43 only).
Artist: | Francisco de Goya (1746 - 1828) |
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Applied technique: | Aquatint, Engraving, Etching |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Genre: | Allegory |
Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints & Multiples |
Artist: | Francisco de Goya (1746 - 1828) |
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Applied technique: | Aquatint, Engraving, Etching |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Genre: | Allegory |
Place of origin: | Europe, Spain |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints & Multiples |
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