Francisco de Goya y Lucientes “Los Caprichos”
The National Arts Club
[Image: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” (1799) Etching and Aquatint The National Arts Club Permanent Collection]
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Grand Gallery
Goya’s Los Caprichos are major masterworks from the Age of Enlightenment. Published in 1799, the album of eighty prints in etching and aquatint is Goya’s critical testament to the wave of ignorance, superstition and common prejudice that enveloped Spanish society of his time. Goya’s original visions of monsters, specters and elegance gone mad are bizarre and disturbing yet often humorous and compelling.
As both prints and images, the pages of Los Caprichos are a groundbreaking experiment in modernism, establishing Goya as a precursor to the later movements of Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and Surrealism.
The prints in this exhibition were recently discovered in a bound and miscatalogued album which was part of the Robert Henri Art Library gifted to The National Arts Club by Janet Le Clair in 1994.
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Schedule
from January 05, 2015 to January 31, 2015