There is plenty to suck (Mucho hay que chupar)
Plate 45 from: Los Caprichos
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Price Realised USD 3,750
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USD 3,000 - USD 5,000
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FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)
There is plenty to suck (Mucho hay que chupar)
Plate 45 from: Los Caprichos
Prado manuscript: ‘Those who become eighty suck young children; those who are less than eighteen years old, suck grown-ups. It seems that man is born and lives in order to be sucked.’
The Madrid Biblioteca Nacional text could apply to this but also to the preceding work: ‘Pimps and procuresses disgrace hundreds of children, supplying drugs for abortion when required by secrecy’. The figure at the lower left of the print clearly being a monk, the attack here very well could again be the clergy.
Johnson, R. S., Francisco Goya, Los Caprichos, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1992, p. 116.
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Lot 45Sale 19889
There is plenty to suck (Mucho hay que chupar)
Plate 45 from: Los CaprichosFRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)Estimate: USD 3,000 - 5,000
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