Series: “The Proverbs”, Francisco Goya, 1864
Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828)
Etchings and aquatints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Grover Higgins.
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Los disparates (The Follies), also known as Proverbios (Proverbs), is a series of prints in etching and aquatint created by Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746-1828) between 1815 and 1823. Goya created the series while he lived in his house near Manzanares (Quinta del Sordo) on the walls of which he painted the famous Black Paintings. When he left to France and moved in Bordeaux in 1824, he left these works in Madrid apparently incomplete. During Goya's lifetime, the series was not published because of the oppressive political climate and of the Inquisition.
The disparates series was first published by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1864 under the title Proverbios (Proverbs). In this edition, the titles given to the works are Spanish proverbs. The series is an enigmatic album of twenty-two prints (originally eighteen; four works were added later) which is the last major series of prints by Goya, which the artist created during the last years of his life.
Goya is often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.
-Wikipedia
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1. "The Proverbs: A Way of Flying", 1864.
2. "The Proverbs: The Horse-Abductor", 1864.
3. "The Proverbs: Folly of Fear", 1864.
4. "The Proverbs: Flying Folly", 1864.
5. "The Proverbs: Ridiculous Folly", 1864.
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