Art Of The Day Weekly
#377 - from 26 February 2015 to 4 March 2015
Goya brings back witches
LONDON – The Courtauld gallery offers the spectator a very original exhibition, a true witches' Sabbath. They dance, make faces, jump around and complain throughout twenty-two episodes. They are all created by the same matrix, the spirit of a black genius, Goya (1746-1828). A the age of 50 he had become deaf and started sketching on secret albums all that was inspired to him by the night creatures and the world of darkness. When he died, these eight albums - put in order from A to H, were dismembered adn scatterd without pity, finding refuge in museums and collections throught the world. For the first time one of the albums, the one with the letter D, aka Witches and Old Women, has been totally reassembled thanks to loans from Paris, Berlin, New York and Los Angeles. This type of black mass is not going to come around again.
• Goya, the Witches and Old Women Album at the Courtauld Gallery, from 26 February to 25 May 2015.