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Follies. Goya. Drawings. "Only my Strength of Will Remains"
On the occasion of the exhibition "Only My Strength Will Remains", which opens on the day the Museo Nacional del Prado celebrates its 200th anniversary until February 16th 2020, Chief Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Museo Nacional del Prado, and Manuela Mena comment the "Follies" series by Francisco de Goya.
The composition and dimensions of the twenty drawings housed in the Prado, in addition to the fact that several show the marks of the press from being transferred to a copperplate, seem to indicate that they are preparatory for the etchings that Goya entitled "Disparates" ["Follies"] but which were unconvincingly retitled "Proverbios" ["Proverbs"] for the first edition of 1864.
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