Goya's Last Works
Published on 1. March 2006
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-300-11767-7 (ISBN)
Description
A close look at Goya's final years and his brilliant culminating work
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) spent the last four years of his life living in Bordeaux with other political emigres from Spain and South America. In those years he created small-scale, intimate pieces, including uncommissioned portraits of friends and family, miniature paintings on ivory plaques, and numerous drawings and lithographs. These works attest to the artist's continuing vitality in his old age and also offer insight into his life in Bordeaux.
This beautiful book presents fifty-one key works from Goya's late period along with two essays that illuminate his works of that time. Jonathan Brown retells the story of Goya's difficult years in exile when he nevertheless continued to make art, experimenting with the new medium of lithography, inventing a technique of miniature painting on ivory, and painting remarkable portraits of friends and supporters. Susan Grace Galassi describes the rich historical and cultural milieu of Bordeaux and establishes a biographical context and sense of place that underscore the triumph of Goya's final achievement.
Exhibition Schedule:
The Frick Collection, New York, February 22 -May 14, 2006
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) spent the last four years of his life living in Bordeaux with other political emigres from Spain and South America. In those years he created small-scale, intimate pieces, including uncommissioned portraits of friends and family, miniature paintings on ivory plaques, and numerous drawings and lithographs. These works attest to the artist's continuing vitality in his old age and also offer insight into his life in Bordeaux.
This beautiful book presents fifty-one key works from Goya's late period along with two essays that illuminate his works of that time. Jonathan Brown retells the story of Goya's difficult years in exile when he nevertheless continued to make art, experimenting with the new medium of lithography, inventing a technique of miniature painting on ivory, and painting remarkable portraits of friends and supporters. Susan Grace Galassi describes the rich historical and cultural milieu of Bordeaux and establishes a biographical context and sense of place that underscore the triumph of Goya's final achievement.
Exhibition Schedule:
The Frick Collection, New York, February 22 -May 14, 2006
Reviews / Votes
"Brown and Galassi have produced a remarkably rich study ...."-Library Journal * Library Journal *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
30 b-w + 120 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 229 mm
Weight
1520 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-11767-7 (9780300117677)
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Persons
Jonathan Brown is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and the author of many books, including Velazquez: Painter and Courtier, The Golden Age of Painting in Spain and the Yale Pelican History of Art volume Painting in Spain, 1500-1700, all published by Yale University Press. Susan Grace Galassi is curator at the Frick Collection, New York, and is the author of Picasso's Variations on the Masters and co-author of Whistler, Women, and Fashion, published by Yale University Press.