by Jon Lackman | 22 August 2006 | Books, Modern
Christoph Lüthy reviews Bodo Vischer’s new book on Goya’s still lifes, The Eye of Nature. Only ten of these remain; made from 1810 to 1812, most found their way via Paris to the wider world, thanks to the late 19th-century French intoxication with Spain. Vischer argues that the paintings somehow look back at the viewer, a position taken also in 1937 by the Spanish Minister of Culture Pablo Picasso on seeing them in Paris.
