Exhibitions
Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War, 1810-1820, 1st edition printed 1836.
Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War, pl 1, Sad forebodings of what is going to happen, 1810-1820, 1st edition printed 1836
Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War, pl 7, What courage!, 1810-1820, 1st edition printed 1836
Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War, pl 23, The same elsewhere,1810-1820, 1st edition printed 1836
Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War, pl 26, One can’t look, 1810-1820, 1st edition printed 1836
Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War, pl 39, An heroic feat! With dead men!, 1810-1820, 1st edition printed 1836
Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War, pl 41, They escape through the flames, 1810-1820, 1st edition printed 1836
Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War, pl 71, The consequences, 1810-1820, 1st edition printed 1836
Francisco de Goya, The Disasters of War, pl 79, Truth has died, 1810-1820, 1st edition printed 1836
Jacques Callot, Les Miseres et les mal-heurs de la guerre, 1633.
Jacques Callot, Les Miseres et les mal-heurs de la guerre, no. 2, 1633.
Jacques Callot, Les Miseres et les mal-heurs de la guerre, no. 7, 1633.
Jacques Callot, Les Miseres et les mal-heurs de la guerre, no. 10, 1633.
Jacques Callot, Les Miseres et les mal-heurs de la guerre, no. 11, 1633.
Jacques Callot, Les Miseres et les mal-heurs de la guerre, no. 12, 1633.
Jacques Callot, Les Miseres et les mal-heurs de la guerre, no. 14, 1633.
Jacques Callot, Les Miseres et les mal-heurs de la guerre, no. 17, 1633.
Goya & Callot: Looking at War / Regards sur la guerre. Installation view / vue d’installation. Battat Contemporary 2010. (Photo: Éliane Excoffier)
Goya & Callot: Looking at War / Regards sur la guerre. Installation view / vue d’installation. Battat Contemporary 2010. (Photo: Éliane Excoffier)
Goya & Callot: Looking at War / Regards sur la guerre. Installation view / vue d’installation. Battat Contemporary 2010. (Photo: Éliane Excoffier)
Goya & Callot: Looking at War / Regards sur la guerre. Installation view / vue d’installation. Battat Contemporary 2010. (Photo: Éliane Excoffier)
Goya & Callot: Looking at War / Regards sur la guerre. Installation view / vue d’installation. Battat Contemporary 2010. (Photo: Éliane Excoffier)
Goya & Callot: Looking at War / Regards sur la guerre. Installation view / vue d’installation. Battat Contemporary 2010. (Photo: Éliane Excoffier)
Goya & Callot: Looking at War / Regards sur la guerre. Installation view / vue d’installation. Battat Contemporary 2010. (Photo: Éliane Excoffier)
Regards sur la guerre • Looking At War: Goya & Callot
January 14
- February 20, 2010
Opening: January 14, 2010 6:00 PM
- 8:00 PM
Battat Contemporary is pleased to present Looking At War: Goya & Callot, an exhibition pulled from the Battat Collection. This show provides a rare glimpse at two of the most extraordinary and coveted print series’ in Western art history, as Old Masters Jacques Callot and Francisco de Goya chronicle the very nature of war and human suffering in their respective series’ Miseries of War (1633) and Disasters of War (created 1810-20, printed 1865).
Recognized as the primary developer of the Old Master print, Baroque draftsman Jacques Callot was born and died in Nancy, the capital of Lorraine. His print cycle Miseries of War, consisting of 18 etchings documenting the Thirty Years War, is not only the most renowned work of his career, but also largely inspired Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya’s war series, a set of 81 aquatints entitled Disasters of War. In this series, Goya bridges the gap between the Old Masters and the Moderns, as he was committed to representing his observations of war, while maintaining a poetic quality to his work. Callot and Goya’s respective series both serve as statements – taking strong positions against war and all that it encompasses.
See the Battat Collection’s first edition bound Disasters of War and flip through a digitally interactive projected version of the book at your leisure. Also see the individually framed etchings that form the Miseries of War by Callot.
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING:
- A Collector – of Prints
- A lecture by Irwin Browns (collector)
- Saturday, January 16, 2010, 2pm @ Battat Contemporary
- (in English) FREE
- A lecture by Dr. Hilliard T. Goldfarb (Associate Chief Curator, Curator of Old Masters & Curator of Prints & Drawings @ the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
- Saturday, January 23, 2010, 2pm @ Battat Contemporary
- (in English) FREE