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Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de, Los Desastres de la Guerra, 1863. Madrid. Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando.
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de, Los Desastres de la Guerra, 1863. Madrid. Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando.

Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de

Los Desastres de la Guerra, 1863. Madrid. Real Academia de Nobles Artes de San Fernando.
First edition of Goya´s masterful artistic depiction of War, universalizing the theme like never before had been done.

The first edition of Goya's impassioned 'Disasters of War', one of the most visually arresting artistic creations of all times, which has forever influenced our perception of war, the grief, the pain, the madness, our civilization at its most gruesome, universalizing the theme of war like never before, often represented in movies when an iconographic rendering of humanity at its lowest can come to, at the same time, as remarkable artistic achievement by one of the world´s most famous, influential, and wonderful artists of all times.
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 Oblong folio, (335 x 242 mm sheets). Lithographic title, 2 pp. letterpress biographical essay, the complete set of 80 etchings with burnished aquatint, drypoint and engraving on heavy wove paper, 31 with part of a J.G.O. and Palmette watermark, the rest without watermark, with margins (title, letterpress and first plate very faintly browned, otherwise the plates clean and fresh). Contemporary black half morocco backed buckram, spine flat, front board lettered in gilt, blind ruling to corners, light wear. Occasional spotting, overall a very good copy.

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