Plate 30 from the 'Disasters of War' series

Maker

(artist)
born 1966

(printmaker)
born 1966

(artist)
born 1962

(printmaker)
born 1962

(publisher)

Title

Plate 30 from the 'Disasters of War' series

Date of Production

1999

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.9 cm
Width: 19.4 cm

Accession Number

G.2010.XX.2

Mode of Acquisition

Charles Booth-Clibborn, gift, 27.5.2010

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© Jake and Dinos Chapman. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

This print is one of a large portfolio of etchings by the Chapman brothers which respond directly to Goya’s famous series of prints of the same name. Goya’s prints depict the brutality and violence of the Napoleonic conflicts with Spain in the early years of the nineteenth century. In this print, a bestial hand is seen working over one of Goya’s most famous scenes of a mutilated man tied to a tree.

The Chapman brothers have had a longstanding fascination with Goya’s work. In 2001, they controversially purchased one of the few remaining original sets of Goya’s Disasters of War and drew horrifying cartoon faces over them, extending the themes of violence and terror to the twenty-first century.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

The Courtauld Collects - 20 Years of Acquisitions, Somerset House & London & England, 17/06/2010-19/09/2010

Literature

Ed. Patrick Elliott, Contemporary Art in Print: The Publications of Charles Booth-Clibborn and his imprint The Paragon Press 1995-2000, London: Booth-Clibborn 2001
324, 335

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : :

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