Description: Labor Day sale: Regular: $115, ON SALE at 75 through 9/02/2024 Etched copy of Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) etching, Plate 17 from Los Caprichos: Bien tirada está (It Is Nicely Stretched), 1799. Remarkably accurate etched copy of a rare early impression of this plate: a proof Goya took of the etched image before he added the text. Virtually indistinguishable from the original, framed this would be an exciting addition to the wall of even the most regal library or den. One of only 40 impressions printed in black on vèlin de Madagascar in 1928. In outstanding condition excepting small remnants of publisher's original mounting at top corners of reverse. Please see the photos. Platemarks: 8.16 x 5.6 inches; sheet: 16.8 x 12 inches. Shipped in archival glassine in a heavy-duty tube. Thank you for looking at my lot. I hope you’ll consider checking out my other listings, and enjoy your day. Goya’s Los Caprichos: “An announcement in the February 6, 1799, edition of El Diario de Madrid offered for sale “a collection of prints of imaginary subjects, invented and etched by Don Francisco Goya.” Goya (1746–1828) was by then the preeminent painter in Spain and that year was appointed primer pintor de cámara to King Carlos IV (1748–1819). His populist commercial venture, however, proved a failure. Goya later claimed he sold only twenty-seven sets; he presented 240 with their copper plates to Madrid’s Real Calcografía in 1803. “The series, which he entitled Los Caprichos, satirizes late eighteenth-century Spanish society. Using recognized tropes, Goya criticized irrational superstitions, and general ignorance and idleness, as well as nobility’s pretensions, the clergy’s corrupt worldliness, and various cruel societal norms. To protect himself from accusations of political subversion and religious heterodoxy, he cited artistic freedom in the advertisement, stating he “intended no satire of the personal defects of any specific individual,” and claimed any “[s]uch specific satire [would impose] undue limitation on the artist’s talents.” He went so far as to disassociate his conscious thought from the imagery, illustrating creatures of his dreams and the irrational mind in The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, perhaps the most famous of the series’ prints.”
Price: 75 USD
Location: Chicago, Illinois
End Time: 2024-09-27T03:35:45.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Artist: Goya, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Unknown
Image Orientation: Portrait
Size: Small
Material: Ink, Paper
Item Length: 12 in
Framing: Unframed
Subject: Figures, Women, Caprichos, Beauty, Whim
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1928
Item Height: 17 in
Theme: Art, Community Life, Fantasy, History, People, Politics, Social History
Style: Old Master Print
Features: Limited Edition
Production Technique: Etching
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
Handmade: Yes
Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
