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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Goya: Avant-Garde Genius

Nov 8, 2019 – Feb 10, 2020
Place Dr Esquirol, 47916, Agen Cedex 9

“In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade.” In a single phrase, the Spanish painter Francisco Goya—who worked in many media, on many subjects, and became known as a bridge figure between the Old Masters and the moderns—summed up his unwavering approach to his wide-ranging art. A new exhibition, on view in Agen’s historic Jacobins’ Church, presents Goya’s work in all its variety while emphasizing the founding aesthetic to which he remained true throughout his career. —J.V.

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, “Scène Des Caprices” © Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Agen.