Blackburn, Julia — Old Man Goya

Pantheon First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Pantheon, 2002. 8vo.,239pp., illustrated. Fine in fine dust jacket. In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness that left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book, Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political turmoil, of war, violence, and confusion, and Goya transformed what he saw around him into visionary paintings, drawings, and etchings. These were also years of tenderness for Goya, of intimate relationships with the Duchess of Alba and with Leocadia, his mistress, who accompanied him to the end. Fine Fine 1st Edition 1st Printing NY 8vo 256