Two Goya paintings that cannot leave Spain coincide in the auction market

The summer of 2022 appears to be a good time to acquire a Goya canvas in Madrid.

On June 23 and July 6, it will be possible to bid in the Alcalá Subastas and Abalarte rooms for the paintings Apparition

(1775) and

(1774), hand in hand of the immortal artist from Fuendetodos.

It will be necessary to have available between two and two and a half million euros of entry to get hold of any of them, but bearing in mind that they are inexportable.

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The face of Jesus in

, according to Abalarte Subastas, could be that of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) himself, "since his hair appears in a ponytail, as in other self-portraits of the painter."

According to the Ministry of Culture and Sports, it is "a work unanimously considered by Goya, of great technical and expressive quality and that is in an excellent state of conservation."

So much so that the ministry has prohibited the oil from going abroad, except for exhibitions.

'Apparition of the Virgin of Pilar to the apostle Santiago and his disciples' (1775), by Francisco de Goya.

The canvas, 45 by 39 centimeters, belonged to Juan Martín de Goicoechea y Galarza (1732-1806), protective friend of the Aragonese genius, and from him, on his death, it passed to his nephew Pedro Miguel López de Goicocechea.

From there, the work went from mansion to mansion until it ended up in the hands of its current owners, who are now putting it up for sale to the highest bidder on July 6 with a starting price of two and a half million euros.

According to the

in Aragon , “the painting was carried out on a preparation with a low concentration of glue, which caused a very accentuated cracking in the shape of a tile, very characteristic of some of the artist's works from this period.

This made the pigment easily detach from the fabric along the edges of the

that the cracking forms, and for this reason the work underwent a consolidation and restoration treatment in the 1980s.”

For its part,

is, according to TheArtMarket magazine, a "magnificent large-format canvas (107 by 80 cm) made known by the Marquis of Lozoya in 1951. The piece was He was able to see in 2012 in the exhibition of the Royal Palace

.

Later, between 2013 and 2018, it was part of the permanent exhibition of the Goya Museum in Zaragoza, under a loan regime.

Portrait of the Duke of Alba, in the Goya Museum in Zaragoza. Javier Cebollada

According to the

, the painting will be offered to the highest bidder on June 23 starting at two million euros, "a figure significantly lower than the one it had when it went on the market in 2011, then at Caylus, also from Madrid, which offered for direct sale for 4.5 million”.

For its part, the Ibercaja Foundation has incorporated this Wednesday into its Goya Museum in Zaragoza an unpublished work by the painter:

(1783).

It is an oil on canvas measuring 52.5 by 42.7 centimeters that comes from a private collection.

As the work lacks any documentation, the features of the character reflected in the canvas have been compared with those shown in a painting of the aristocrat preserved in Chicago.

Biometric studies have confirmed that it is the same person: the Duke of Alba that Goya knew and whom he made immortal.

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