科陶尔德美术馆收藏的西班牙绘画杰作之一是戈雅《D 画册》(又称《女巫和老妇人》画册)中的一张名为《Cantar y bailar》(唱歌跳舞)的画页,这是画册的第 3 页。这本图录汇集了所有现存的画册页面(目前编号最多为 23 页),提出了重建画册的建议,其中包括被擦除或剪去的页面。戈雅是在 50 岁前因病失聪后,才开始创作 “日记画册”的。他一直坚持到去世,共创作了八本画册(以字母 A 至 H 命名),最初共收录了约 550 幅绘画作品。这些画册在视觉上、技术上和思想上都是连贯一致的,它们以不同的技法和支持类型进行统一,并进行了分页(在第一本画册之后)。在这些画册中,戈雅将他对人性和周围世界的看法写在纸上,无论是否有文字评论。每本画册都有自己独特的主题、风格和技巧。这八本画册的后期历史已被专家记录在案,目前仍在调查之中。戈雅的儿子将装订成册的画册重新装裱,然后由他的孙子整体出售。此次展览和对 D 画册的研究是重建戈雅绘画作品国际项目的试点。该出版物将检验 D 画册的范围,并探索各画页的可能顺序和主题一致性。D 画册中的每幅画作都将作为拟议的重建序列进行复制,每幅画作都附有详细的目录条目和技术信息。此外,该出版物还将通过收录戈雅一些密切相关的作品来界定画册的背景。
One of the masterpieces of The Courtauld Gallery’s collection of Spanish drawings is a sheet known as Cantar y bailar (Singing and dancing), page 3 from Goya’s Album D, also known as the ‘Witches and Old Women’ album. Bringing together all the extant album pages, currently numbered up to 23, this catalogue proposes a reconstruction of the album that would include the sheets from which Goya’s page numbers have been erased or trimmed away. Goya began to create ‘journal albums’ of drawings relatively late in life, after the shattering illness that left him stone deaf before the age of fifty. It was a practice he would sustain until his death, creating eight albums (named with letters A to H) that originally included a total of some 550 drawings. Visually, technically and intellectually coherent, these albums are unified in their discrete techniques and types of support, and paginated (after the first). In these album pages Goya committed to paper his views, with or without written comments, on human nature and the world around him. Each album has its own distinctive subject matter, style and technique. The later history of the eight albums, already expertly chronicled, remains under investigation. The disbound album sheets were remounted in large volumes by Goya’s son, then sold en bloc by his grandson. Following their final dispersal by Federico de Madrazo and Valentín Carderera in the 1860s and 1870s, many gaps remain in all the albums. This exhibition and the research underpinning it on Album D are the pilot for an international project for the reconstruction of Goya’s graphic oeuvre. The publication will test the extent of Album D and explore the possible sequence and thematic coherence of the sheets. The individual Album D drawings will be reproduced as a proposed reconstructed sequence, each with detailed catalogue entry and technical information. In addition, the publication will define the context of the album by including a number of closely related works by Goya.
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