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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)

Lot 342
16.10.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1470354
Lot 342 | FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
Los Desastres de la Guerra
the complete set of eighty etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving
1810-20
on firm wove paper, some sheets with watermarks J.G.O or Palmette
with title-page and biographical essay
a fine, uniform set printed in dark sepia, from the First Edition of five hundred copies
published by the Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, 1863
very good to fine impressions, printing darkly and with good contrasts
the sheets loose, with wide margins
generally in very good condition
Plates 17,4 x 22 cm. (6 1/8 x 8 ¾ in.) (and similar)
Sheets 23,9 x 33 cm. (9 1/3 x 13 in.) (and similar)
Overall 55,2 x 43,1 x 7,5 cm. (21 7/8 x 17 x 3 in.) (each box)(80)




Literature

L. Delteil, Le peintre graveur illustré: Francisco Goya, Paris, 1922, nos. 120-199.
E. Lafuente Ferrari, Goya: Complete Etchings, Aquatints, and Lithographs, London, 1962 (transl. from Spanish by R. Rudorff).
T. Harris, Goya - Engravings and Lithographs - Catalogue raisonné, Oxford, 1964, nos. 121-200, pp. 172-292.
W. Hofmann (ed.), Goya – Das Zeitalter der Revolutionen, exh. cat., Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 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., The British Museum, London, 2012, pp. 245-255.
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. 136-161.



Exhibited

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Luther and the Consequences of Art, November - December 1984.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Goya - Los Desastres de la Guerra, November 1992 - January 1993.
Trento, Fondazione Antonio Mazotta - Castel Ivano, Francisco Goya - Otto Dix: Sulla Guerra, July - August 1996.
Applied technique:Etching
Medium:Acrylic glass, Plastic
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Prints & Multiples
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