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Plate 30 from: Los Caprichos
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Price Realised USD 3,500
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USD 2,000 - USD 3,000
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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
Why hide them? (Porque esconderlos?)
Plate 30 from: Los Caprichos
Prado manuscript: ‘The answer is easy. The reason that he does not want to spend them and in fact will not spend them is that, although he is over eighty years old and is not going to live another month, he still is afraid that he will live long enough to be lacking in money. So mistaken are the calculations of avarice.’
‘This appears to be an attack on the avariciousness of the clergy. The four malicious appearing figures in the background seem to be convinced that they eventually will have those money bags for themselves.'
Johnson, R. S., Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1992, p. 86.
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In very good condition, the hand-made laid paper without watermark, with margins, the platemark deep and well-defined (the plates were bevelled in the Fourth Edition), with minor binding defects at the left edge.
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Lot 30Sale 19889
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Plate 30 from: Los CaprichosFRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)Estimate: USD 2,000 - 3,000
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