Goya. Dibujos. Solo la voluntad me sobra

In this book, readers will find an overview of Francisco de Goya’s work as a draftsman, featuring more than two hundred drawings created throughout his artistic career, ranging from those included in the Italian Sketchbook to those produced in Bordeaux, the city where he died in 1828.

The authors, José Manuel Matilla and Manuela B. Mena Marqués, curators at the Prado Museum, make their most recent research accessible to a wider audience and offer a personal and fresh interpretation of Goya’s artistic world through an essay and brief commentaries on each of the selected drawings. Created mostly outside the scope of official commissions, these works highlight the artist’s originality and intellectual independence, as well as his determination to condemn irrational human behavior and the abuses it engenders. Viewing them provokes a jolt in today’s viewer that immediately turns to indignation, as one becomes aware that humanity continues to commit many of the errors denounced by Goya.

The catalog includes an essay by José Manuel Matilla, Solo la voluntad me sobra, and all the works reproduced and annotated, presented chronologically and thematically.