The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has just announced the upcom🌜ing exhibition running from 3 April – 16 July 2023.
Pareja (c. 1608-1670) was an enslaved painter who worked in Diego Velázquez’s studio for over twenty years, before finally being granted freedom by his master in 1654. Best known for (illustrated above), this exhibition seeks to illuminate Pareja as an artist in his own right and to draw att🍰ention to the preponderance of enslaved artistic labour in seventeenth century Iberia. As such, the pre📖sent show includes many of Pareja’s paintings executed in Madrid as a free man, alongside depictions of Black and Morisco Spaniards by other leading painters such as Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Francisco de Zurbarán.
Sotheby’s sold, on 20 October 2022, a painting by Senegalese artist Ida N’Diaye, ꦦ168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Juan de Pa𝕴reja agressé par les chiens (1982) for £176,400 against a £50,000 - £70,000 estimate. This picture offers an updated interpretation of the famous Velázquez portrait first through its expressive ha💛ndling, but second, and more importantly, by acknowledging Pareja’s disenfranchised status via the inclusion of attacking dogs, so synonymous with the institution of slave♛ry.
