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This may be the loneliest painting ever made. Between about 1820 and 1823, an old, deaf, disillusioned Goya covered the walls of his farmhouse with dark, private visions — the so-called Black Paintings, never meant to be shown. This is one of them.
Almost the entire surface is empty: a vast field of dim ochre. And near the bottom, almost lost, the small head of a dog, gazing up at nothing we can see.
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Madrid
Room 67 · Level 0
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