Francisco Goya Los Caprichos catalogue cover (detail)
Official Invitation to the Opening of Los Caprichos 9 November 1960
Press 14 November 1960
Letters to the Press 1960
The Christchurch Star Wednesday 9 November 1960
This exhibition is now closed
Los Caprichios was Francisco Goya's first and most famous series of 80 etchings conceived during the period of conflict as absolutism slowly gave way to democracy in Spain. The Caprichos series is in two halves, with a portrait of the artist preceding each section. The first half is concerned with the follies of human conduct and the second with the corruptions of church and state.
In 1803 Goya offered the plates and the remaining unsold 240 sets of the Caprichos to the King in exchange for the grant of a pension to his son.
John Summers, an active writer and art commentator, spoke on the collection of etchings and explained how the etchings reflected eighteenth century frivolity and vice.
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Date:
7 November – 20 November 1960 -
Location:
Robert McDougall Art Gallery - main gallery -
Exhibition number:
9H