1816
Edition Size: limited
Image Size: 24.5x50 cm
Sheet Size: 24.5x50 cm
Reference: La Tauromaquia Plate 31, Delteil 254, Harris 234
Signed
Condition: Excellent
In La Tauromaquia, Goya succeeded in creating some of the most intensely charged images in the repertory of graphic art. In these scenes, the brighter the sun (just as the brighter the footlights for Degas’s dancers and Toulouse-Lautrec’s singers), the more apparent is the all-surrounding darkness and the more limited and fragmented the scene becomes.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. He was also one of the great portraitists of modern times.
