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Unlike his portraits of the Spanish royal court, Goya's virtuoso etchings are dark, dramatic, disturbing, and often enigmatic. This print of a giant is among his most haunting, a portent of twentieth-century Surrealism and Expressionism.
Giant, by 1818
Made by Francisco de Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Burnished aquatint; first state; 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (28.5 x 21 cm)
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935 (35.42)
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