May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 286

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE GOYA
Ya no hai remedio.

Aquatint and etching, 1808-23. 145x165 mm; 5 3/4x6 5/8 inches, full margins. A proof, variant printing from prior to or in the early stages of the first edition, with the letters and number un-inked. From Los Desastres de la Guerra. A superb, richly-inked, early impression, extremely scarce as a proof.

We have not found another similar proof impression of this subject at auction in the past 30 years. Delteil 134; Harris 135.